Thread by @historykenya101

A KENYAN BORN GENIUS.

In the '90s, Kenyans were mesmerized by Bethuel Mbugua,a boy who was in form four at 6 years,in Ol Kalou Sec Sch

He lectured over 300 universities and colleges by the time he was ten years. One of his lectures was in TZ & it was attended by....

.... Former Tanzania presidents, Julius Nyerere and Hassan Mwinyi.

Young Mbugua required studies in the schools for the gifted in USA because no sch in Kenya could accommodate his high IQ. At one time he sneaked past presidential security,to go speak to President Moi who was ...

At kijabe for a development visit. He asked the Moi govt to sponsor his education in USA, in the schools for the gifted but the govt rejected his request. In fact, some Kenyan politicians in the floor of the house criticized young Mbugua calling him a charlatan and an actor ...

Who could not differentiate between Hamburg and Hamburger (Kenyan leaders dismissed such a brainy kid on such flimsy grounds).

But the boy, had the ability to teach high school students at the age of 7,he could comfortably teach biology and human anatomy with ease...

It was this abilities that made him lecture over 300 institutions in East Africa, while back at home our govt had dismissed him. (Maybe he was becoming more popular than our govt and politicians). Mbugua would later get sponsorship from an American mathematician called ...

Prof Lenore Blum, who took Mbugua to USA at the age of 12 and enrolled him at Los Angeles’ Mirman School for Gifted Children (where he repeated seventh grade twice due to cultural and language hiccups!) in October 1991, and later moved to Harvard Westlake School.

In 2003, Mbugua quietly returned to Kenya, where he secured a job with Amref international university, where he is the head of information.

Mbugua could have becoming a great scientist, maybe a key to the current pandemic, but frustrations from Kenyan govt killed his dream.