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Why we must guard CBC as Kenyans

Nursery school pupils (PP1) with their teacher have a practical lesson during a Science Fair on Climate change. [File, Standard]

Education since the colonial era had the primary purpose of safeguarding the interests of the colonialists. It was to provide them with cheap labour and colonise the minds of Kenyan children who were brilliant by their education system.

These brilliant minds got lured by the white-collar jobs that were lowly paying while the majority of the students that got average grades or those that failed in exams got entrusted with non-white collar jobs mainly in the agriculture sector as drivers, farmworkers and merchants.

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