On August 15, 2019, the writers of The XYZ Show invited me to discuss with them the issues of Kenya's new education system. This is the text that I wrote for the occasion in answer to some of the questions the writers asked.

Q. ​Do you see any good in the new education system? What good?

A. I get asked this question a lot. It comes from the way Kenyans have been taught to think in binaries. For every national project, we are expected to talk about the strengths and weaknesses, or the advantages and disadvantages. 

Thank you for inviting me for this forum where you discuss education, a topic that is close to my heart. I wanted to apologize for not being able to join you, until I remembered that I am not able to attend precisely because I am engaged in doing the work of the same education that you have gathered to discuss.
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This conference is memorable for me, because this is the first time in my experience that I have heard of a public conference to discuss education. I would have preferred that the topics of the conference be more easily accessible by the public, topics such as “Why do we educate?” And “what kind of graduates do we want?” Nevertheless, I appreciate this forum and your invitation.

​Unfortunately, the topic you have given me to discuss, that is, education systems that have worked elsewhere, is outside my purview. I came to the public discussion of CBC not as an education expert, but as a teacher who was "tayad" of seeing disempowerment in my students’ faces.