You can’t keep a good girl down

The Kenya Certificate of Primary School Examination results released last week were never going to be a surprise. Boys outscored girls in Maths and Science, which is very bad for the boy child since lawyers and PR executives make more money than mathematics professors.

In general, there were more boys in the top-ten slots than girls. And quite predictably, children from North Eastern Province didn’t bask in the limelight. Evidently, it’s practically impossible to keep the brain firing on all cylinders when the tummy is empty. A cursory glance at the names of top performers — Oloo, Imali, Njoroge, Chemtai— is proof that you need food in the belly to calculate fractions.