Burning of schools reflective of the many ‘unseen fires’ in our country

Students look for their boxes that were burnt at Kisii School after a dormitory caught fire on July 11. At least 198 students lost their belongings to the fire. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

I was taken aback by the sight of a razed dormitory in Kisii School, my alma mater. At several points in its history, Kisii School bore the alter ego, the Government African School, Kisii.

It was to cater for the schooling of brilliant Africans who had no chance of joining white-only schools in Nairobi and the former White Highlands.