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Folly of varsities built on quick sands of tribe

With more than 50 universities, Kenya has in the last two decades managed to reduce significantly annual airlifts of thousands of students to foreign universities in Asia, Europe and the US in search of higher education. Universities in any country have a critical role in providing leadership for the achievement of a country's higher goals and objectives.

Universities the world over are deemed as temples of learning, deep wells of knowledge, wisdom, tolerance, democracy, spirit of adventure, great ideas, progress, innovation and indeed, a source of solutions to most of the problems that afflict us.

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