let the truth be told

I will be posting my encounters and experiences of being in an university at the heart of maasai land in Kenya.

my next article will be on why its a disgrace to claim the university is a 'world class university'.

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Embracing the challenges of living with dyslexia

Munene Mutwiri was five years old when he first started school. And like any other child, he had to read the alphabet, form words and sentences and count basic numbers. However, his case was different. He had a lot of mispronunciations, performed poorly in Mathematics, and read some words backwards. Once, in a Literature class, he read ‘flashback’ as ‘back flash,’ to the amusement of his classmates. Most of the time, he would see the second name before the first, and mathematical formulae appeared as diagrams since numbers did not make a lot of sense to him, a problem he still encounters to date. As a child, he preferred and loved when his teachers narrated stories rather than have him read them. Now in his mid-20s, he still prefers listening to audiobooks to reading a text novel. At home, his family took him to numerous eye clinics thinking he had an eye problem but deep inside, he knew his eyes were okay, and his reading problems had something to do wit...

OPEN LETTER TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR

PROFESSOR MARY WALINGO Maybe some will love to call you ‘mother’ others our ‘mother’, but for me am not interested in giving you funky motherly titles that l think you do not deserve. I prefer to address you with your official name or title, Professor Mary Walingo, The Vice Chancellor Maasai Mara University. You happen not to know me so I take this chance to introduce myself. I’m Munene A Mutwiri a communications student in third year. With due respect Madame Vice Chancellor; I’m compelled to convey my sincere disappointments with your leadership style through this open letter. Let me start by highlighting why you do not deserve the name ‘mother’ of the school. The majority of the students in this university happen to have their own mothers. Those who are unfortunate not to have one, they have their guardians, those with non-have their girlfriends as their ‘mothers’. Those who don’t have either have God as their ‘mother’. And even those who are unfortunate enough not to ...

IN GLORY OF US AS COMRADES

NESH PENDRAGON After a long, cold and rainy stay at home school is finally here again. I take this chance to wish you all a safe journey back to Narok and to those who were still around please remember to go say hello to mummy before you resume school this coming semester. Let me remind us that we have come a long way as an institution but a lot more has to be done not just for us now but for posterity. The enemy still remains the administration. Suspension of students based on weak allegations. The Non-functioning state of SOMMU and the general poor management of student affairs by the management are still thorny issues. A lot of new challenges await us, the large number of students who will be on session to the ‘new’ mabati classes that might be used by some of us if not all. Most of us have already travelled to Narok; having to go check on either their missing marks, to sit for a supplementary exam or the special exams. As you sit your exams I want to wi...

MUNENE A MUTWIRI

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