Children in Kisima, studying at night. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images As my silence on this blog can probably reveal, the last two months have been difficult for me to digest emotionally and intellectually. There are two things, especially, that confound me.
One is the repeated attack on the arts and humanities by our Education CS, Fred Matiang’i, himself a doctorate holder in Communication and Comparative Literature from the University of Nairobi. Within the last two months alone, he has repeatedly said that too many students are doing humanities and social sciences instead of science, or that Kenya’s education is too “academic” as opposed to “competence based,” as if academic is the direct contradiction of competence.
One is the repeated attack on the arts and humanities by our Education CS, Fred Matiang’i, himself a doctorate holder in Communication and Comparative Literature from the University of Nairobi. Within the last two months alone, he has repeatedly said that too many students are doing humanities and social sciences instead of science, or that Kenya’s education is too “academic” as opposed to “competence based,” as if academic is the direct contradiction of competence.
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