Last Saturday, I spent the day at my alma mater, Thika High School, where I spent six of my formative years in the 70s and early 80s. As the cliché goes, this is where a boy entered, but a man left.

Thika High School in Kiambu County was founded in 1951 by the Alliance of Protestant Churches and the Church of Scotland Mission with the aim of providing education for the natives. The school was ...