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"Old Wine" and "New Wine Skins". Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 116
Kenya’s political landscape has gone through various
shifts. Conspicuously, these political shifts do not
seem to have produced concomitant changes in the
education system. Specifically, suppression of
discourse in higher education that characterized the
colonial education system continued to thrive during
Kenyatta and Moi regimes and the culture of silence
lingers on despite the unprecedented opening of
democratic space by the Kibaki administration.
Granted, this study investigates why political
changes in the country have not led to commensurate
changes in discourse patterns in the country's
university system. The study also looks into how
Kenya’s higher education could be de-colonized so
the university system is able to reclaim its role as
an agent of social change more so that of nurturing
the nascent democracy. The study raises issues that
educators, especially those interested in critical
pedagogy, postcolonial scholars, and people
interested in the democratization of developing
countries, especially Africa, will find
interesting.
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