Parents shop for textbooks at Savanis Book Centre, Nairobi, ahead of school opening, on December 31, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard] In 2017, the government chose to source course books for public schools, arguing that the method that was being used at the time was riddled with corruption. There was a grain of truth in the argument. Some grift characterised the process. However, the jury is still out whether the current system is insulated against the vice that has become the country’s second name. The government’s decision to supply textbooks to public schools was a noble idea that sought to boost teaching…
Author: By Agumba Ndaloh
Parents shop for textbooks at Savanis Book Centre, Nairobi, ahead of school opening, on December 31, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard] In 2017, the government chose to source course books for public schools, arguing that the method that was being used at the time was riddled with corruption. There was a grain of truth in the argument. Some grift characterised the process. However, the jury is still out whether the current system is insulated against the vice that has become the country’s second name. The government’s decision to supply textbooks to public schools was a noble idea that sought to boost teaching…
The late Prof Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. [File, Standard] A lot has been written about Ngugi Wa Thiong’o since he departed this world. Prof Ngugi was a social colossus, and many generations have gotten succour through his emotional and social intelligences. I first met Ngugi, figuratively, as a young lad in Kolanya Boys High School, Busia. As a Form One student, it was my first time to visit a library. All types of books relevant to secondary school students and more, were available. The library was opened throughout the day except on Sunday morning. There was no better place to pass…
Butere Girls High School students declined to perform the controversial Echoes of War play during the 63rd edition of the Kenya National Drama and Film Festival in Nakuru, on April 10, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] The arts are meant to entertain, inform and educate. This is what drama and other forms of creative arts have done for eons. Never have they danced to the authorities or been whimsical to nefarious sections of the society. What we should thus do is to make a self-introspection whenever found on the wrong side by the arts. Unfortunately, the world due to ‘Trumpism’, has…