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Can intellectuals be men and women of God?

University students during a lecture. [PHOTO: FILE/ STANDARD]

I wish to propose that the teaching of religion be made compulsory at the university level and that the role of the intellectual in the Kenyan revolution be redefined.

We should not only discuss the indigenous education as it is enshrined in our traditional cultures and religions, but also in the way it is influenced by Christianity and the concomitant Western civilisation on the one hand, and the Islamic and Arab civilisation on the other.

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