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A TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS

This article is a tribute to all the men and women who, having scaled the heights in their chosen careers and excelled at what they do, have the bigness of heart to get back into the classroom and share what they know with the younger generation: TEACHERS, university professors in particular. In the Swahili-speaking world, the word “mwalimu” carries two meanings. Some people are teachers by occupation. Some other people, having been teachers at some point in their lives, so inspire their charges that “mwalimu” becomes an...

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BILLBOARDS

No doubt there will come a time when posterity will look back at our age and wonder what purpose billboards used to serve. For the time being, however, they are on the cutting edge of advertising. Those who frequent Nairobi can be forgiven for thinking that adopt-a-light is part of the natural landscape. There are sections of Uhuru Highway, Lang’ata Road, and Waiyaki Way for example, on which a billboard flashes by every second; and they are so ingeniously mounted as to tell a story, a roadside...

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