Moi has left an indelible mark on higher education

President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi’s administration established the bedrock upon which Kenya’s higher education was built.

Driven by a passion that was moulded through his early life experiences as a teacher, Moi embraced education with a near-compulsive obsession. Besides peace, education was the other indelible mark in Moi’s rich legacy. When he came to power in 1978, he found a higher education sector saddled by a colonial hangover and muffled by a retrogressive school of thought. The University of Nairobi, Kenya’s only university then, was reeling under debt. Moi rolled out a four-year development plan with a vision for increased enrolment and high transition rates from primary through to secondary and tertiary levels.