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Will Kenya’s curriculum institute and ministry use set books to betray students again?

The KICD has changed secondary school literature set books eight times since 1989. [PHOTO: FILE/ STANDARD]

NAIROBI: The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) will soon pick new literature set books for secondary schools.

Among issues that such choices are intended to address is nationhood, arguably one of the most difficult tasks a post-independent state must confront in its initial years. There is no avoiding the issue of bringing together our different people. What is painfully harrowing about it in Kenya is that we seem stuck in that ‘initial’ period over half a century after independence.

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