WEWE NA WEWE NA MIMI

When the then government introduced free primary education, hopes and dreams of the Kenyan citizenry was at an all time high, coming on the backdrop of a momentous election by a regime riding on the anti-corruption slogan. Many saw it as an elixir foreshadowing an end to the scourge of poverty. Children who would otherwise be rendered permanently ignorant now had a chance to life, for indeed education is the key, well, at least in an ideal society.

Fast forward to 2019, the year of our Lord, it would serve no purpose for me to highlight the miscarriage on an education system, for as clear as day, even the blind can see the humiliation school children undergo to acquire some food for thought (see what I did there?). The government, in brazen display of it's non-performance, hires out 15 helicopters to ensure that exam papers reach flooded and remote areas, but damned be the students! They can swim for all we care!

All should not be lost though, Waangari Maathai once noted that since much of the masses are ignorant, the onus falls on the few of us who know to effect the change we desire to see. Itabadilishwa na nani kama si sisi? The small acts done go a long way in effecting change. Take for instance work being done by small organizations such as vitabu vyetu and Food for Education, which aim to improve literacy levels and ensure proper school respectively among students in disadvantaged surroundings.

Take a walk in any public library, Macmilllan Library in the CBD, for instance, books curated in 1970 are on display, does absolutely nothing for intellectual growth of Nairobians, the same case is replicated all across schools in the country. Libraries with no books or non existence of libraries all together. And really, what is a school without a library?

Following the footsteps of Muta, I endeavor to raise 500 books to stock a school library come January 2020. Inspired by Eliud Kipchoge of course. I will most certainly need your help. Have an old literature book lying around? A fasihi book? A science, tech, math book? Heck a dictionary? Donate. Or better yet, get them new ones.....WHO'S WITH THE SHITS?



"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip"~No one famous