In many parts of rural Kenya, this year’s KCPE and KCSE exams have been a source of agony for parents and the learners.
For four weeks on the bounce, local networks have been raising the alarm over escalation of violence in hard-to-reach areas
Our first batch of final-year Covid-era students are sitting their exams beginning next week. The Education ministry says there are more than two million of them carrying butterflies in the stomach, and if you add the parents and guardians who’ve been paying school fees by word of mouth, almost the entire country is pregnant by association.
Few things unite Kenyans the way national exams do. Everyone is happy for their neighbour’s child transitioning from academic childhood to adulthood. Those who can’t afford to import champagne because the Russian airspace is closed are happy to outsource help from the neighbours’ kids to chase after spring chickens, which later perform somersaults on open-air ovens.
