Soon, we will be importing ‘experts’ from Britain. As used to be the case in the 60s, 70 and early 80s. With the current onslaught on higher education, soon we will not be having experts in anything. We will be just another African banana republic, like those former French colonies where you find that the Air Force pilots are while French folks. Oh the blunder we made, to put homeguard back in power. And how long it will take for us to realize that all the good initiatives put in place by kibaki and moi are being rolled back.
If Uhuru Kenyatta (operating through matiang’i and magoha) is allowed to have his way, Kenya will ultimately be like Equatorial Guinea. Where you find that, yes, the GDP per capita is $9850 (almost 10k), but it is only enjoyed by a tiny elite, with the remaining majority being shoeless peasants. [that gdp per capita is by the way higher than China and South Africa and at par with Brazil].
See, Kibaki and Moi, sons of peasants, put in place a ‘massification’ system: where masses were to get ‘higher education’ (of some kind) and stakes in the economy – however small. Hence things like the massification of university education to emphasis on road transport, which employs millions and has a multiplier effect as opposed to railway which is an elite thing.
That is now being changed, in favor of ‘elitisation’. So, thanks to the interest rates caps, only the elite with huge collateral can access credit. Thanks to planned university reforms, only the elite will be able to enjoy higher education, by sending their kids abroad (as used to be the case in the jommo kenyatta era). That is a pity because even the folks with degrees from place like rongo university, kibabii university, embu university, etc have some value. The simple fact that they have degrees makes them pull their socks: hence the traffic jams we are starting to see in rural towns, as such individuals hustle hard to buy cars, build proper businesses… and so on (in the process helping many other individuals with jobs).
Even lower education is to be fvcked up through the CBC, where kids will mainly only be going to school to play. [As is the case with uganda and tz]. In those nations, it is only the elite who get to enjoy proper basic education. You deal with the average tanzanian or ugandan, and you soon realize that you are dealing with a basically illiterate person (thankfully, they retained their traditional education systems, as they were not settler colonies. Our situation will be worse). So in those nations, only the elite are able to send their kids to proper private schools and university abroad. The ocassioal super-talented peasant may get a place at makerere or dar es salaam university, but that is just about it. That is where we are being taken. And it is now clear.
If only people would open their eyes and see what is being done to us.