Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Youth and Nation

Knowledge is power or so the cliché goes. Tyrannical governments the world over - from apartheid South Africa to the Moi regime in Kenya - introduced emasculating systems of education. In South Africa, Bantu Education taught the black population to be efficient slaves to their white masters. In Kenya, the 8.4.4 system of education taught us to be God knows what.

Read more from by Njoroge Matathia here.