Not all foreign trips will benefit Kenyans

Once upon a time, there was a Kamba ruler known by the name Kilundu. On December 7, 1891, while far away from home in the District of Victoria East, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), he put his thumb print mark against his name in an agreement with a Scot known as James Stewart.

Presumably, he put his mark because the agreement was in English, and he was illiterate. Most likely, he didn’t understand the contents of the agreement.