The title is actually taken from a remark by my good friend Kush once he had read the BEST place on earth.
I agrree with him completely. It is really disheartening-in a small way- to read of a centre of excellence such as MIT, Harvard, Yale or even the rest of the more than 4000 colleges and universities in the US yet we in Kenya do not have any centre of excellence. To make it worse, many many high school graduates who qualify for college do not get an opportunity to get to college due to a shortage of universities. On average, only 10% ofthe 250000+ body of Kenyan high school graduates have any realistic hopes of getting intouniversity. What happens to the rest?
The government surely isn’t doing enough to combat this situation but sometimes I wonder, can it really do any more? I mean, it isn’t easy trying to overturn a 40-year economic regression.
Still, I beleive education is the backbone of any country’s future success and as a country wearen’t building a very healthy backbone. However, I think most Kenyans will agree with the fact that in Kenya, there just are’nt enough, if any, opportunitiesto do what you really want to do.Times are hard. It kinda makes you wonder: where are we heading to?
But there is hope, there’s always hope. Indeed there are those Kenyans who do make it, those Kenyans who get an opportunity to excel – yeah, there ARE Kenyans at Harvard. It is important that these Kenyans don’t forget about their country.
If you are a Kenyan, no matter who you are or where you are: Come, let us build the Kenya of tommorow today.