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• March 27, 2008
• 0:43

  Youth and Nation

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  Tags:  youth  

  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.

  

  
• November 26, 2007
• 15:31

  The making of a Kenyan

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  Tags:  Kenyan youth  

  This weekend was sad and tough. I lost an Uncle who was dear to me. But this weekend also had its better parts. Friends and relatives, some whom I had not seen in a long while all came to my Uncle’s home to comfort my aunt, my five cousins and me.
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  For the younger committee members, and trust me there were many of us, the politics and the subsequent committee break-up meant that we could go out, sit by a fire and reminisce on years past. The weather was very good all week long and we would sit outside unhindered, talk about our growing years and about our current lives. It ended up turning into an interesting study of modern Kenyan youth.
  
  Juliet Maruru takes a look back growing up in Kenya. Read more here.
• October 15, 2007
• 19:57

  The anguished life of a Kenyan moan

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  Tags:  youth  

  A sometime volunteer teacher in Kenya writes on an acquaitance of hers, one blessed with better than average intelligence, a family that can pay his way through school, a job that looks to have the potential of a fulfilling career but who constantly complains about his life, how unfair it all is.
  
  Read on here.
• October 10, 2007
• 6:10

  User's guide to beating ODM

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  youth  

  Stephen Wanyama publishes a list of proposals that the PNU could adopt in catching up with an overtaking the ODM party at the polls. This follows polls results that show the Party of National Unity is lagging behind in almost all the provinces.
  
  There are many Kenyans who see this year's election as a titanic battle between good and evil. I don't quite share that view, my opinion being that both sides have let Kenya down immensely.
  
  Read more here.
• June 22, 2007
• 2:26

  The Case AGAINST Military Draft in Kenya

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  youth  

  Kimani S. Njoroge argues against a previous author's suggestion that Kenya should invest in a mandatory military draft for its youth. Kimani argues that such a venture is not only socially, but also economically irresponsible.
  
  Read more here.
• June 20, 2007
• 0:10

  Why Kenya Needs a Military Draft

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  youth  

  Dave Nyambati proposes a compulsory military draft in Kenya to make use of the increasing number of unemployed youth.
  

  The current work force can only absorb so many high school graduates and the jua kali opportunities are limited. This could spiral into a situation where we have whole generations who feel disenfranchised and indifferent towards the idea of a common Kenyan brotherhood. The government has to find a way to turn these unaccommodated youth into responsible adults and upstanding citizens or risk loosing control of an already fragile situation with subversive ideologies like the Mungiki's taking hold.

  Read more here.
• June 07, 2007
• 23:33

  The lost generation

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  youth  

  Peter Ndiangui addresses a new Kenyan generation-- one of unemployment, but with a potential of being innovative and boosting Kenya' s economy.
  

  Forced to the wall, will they validate the old saying that necessity is the mother of invention, and transform Kenya like America's baby boomers transformed her?

  Read more here.