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Colonialism, math teachers to blame for Kenyans’ fickle mood

Mau Mau screening point in Thika Railway station March 1954.

Today we undertake to notionally unearth why our national DNA is so prone to vehemence. We identify some historical culprits that include vestiges of brutal colonialism, the nature of colonial education offered to Africans, and maybe, dour mathematics teachers and the questionable ways in which they have been teaching their core discipline to generations of young Kenyans.

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