It’s time to correct our long history of failure in the education system

Before the Europeans came to Kenya, most communities had a traditional system of education. The system’s key objective was to train individuals to fit into society. This type of education provided skills and knowledge, and was a socialising agent that transmitted cultural values from one generation to another.

But Africans resented and questioned an education system that segregated them from acquiring the academic type of education, similar to one that was offered to the European and Asian communities.