Author: By Mercy Miriti

Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o spoke about the way colonialism survived through education, language, and mental framing. [File, Standard] There is a question that haunts me often—one that echoes louder every time I see another policy copied from the West, another imported curriculum, another leader parroting foreign ideologies while ignoring their people. The question is this: When will our continent be what it can be? Too often, Africa is painted as a place of lack—low development, low opportunity, low worth. We are told we have no leadership, no innovation, no talent. These narratives have been fed to us so consistently…

  The Ngilai community in Samburu County that has embarked in vegetable farming to address malnutrition. [File, Standard] There is a question that haunts me often—one that echoes louder every time I see another policy copied from the West, another imported curriculum, another leader parroting foreign ideologies while ignoring their people. The question is this: When will our continent be what it can be? Too often, Africa is painted as a place of lack—low development, low opportunity, low worth. We are told we have no leadership, no innovation, no talent. These narratives have been fed to us so consistently that we…