Treat our professors with dignity, it takes 40 years to produce one

University education is an essential and immediate driver of economic and social development. [iStock]

One of the more seductive intellectual pleasures is to be caught up in an active debate involving analysis of self in order to have a broader understanding and share with readers and other scholars. In such cases then, scholarship seems less lonely.

Concrete ideas, concept and analyses thus get refined and many issues emerge in a collegial debate. For that reason, I discuss fundamental issues that affect professors in Kenyan universities.