From my assessment, CBC was introduced for different reasons
1. Political: a) the west is always fighting to ensure that Africans don't get education that makes them think. The documents used for CBC were used for experiments on black neighborhoods in the US
1. Political: a) the west is always fighting to ensure that Africans don't get education that makes them think. The documents used for CBC were used for experiments on black neighborhoods in the US
b) Britain hated that Moi abandoned the A level it had given us for the North American liberal arts.
But both UK and US also wanted CBC to remove the need for trained teachers and crush the teachers unions. It's an obsession of the Anglo world.
But both UK and US also wanted CBC to remove the need for trained teachers and crush the teachers unions. It's an obsession of the Anglo world.
c) Muigai wanted to be championed as an education reformer and wipe out the Moi legacy that 8.4.4 reminded him of, and return us to the exclusive A level model of daddy
2. Careerism: there were in-house tussles in Jogoo House over promotion and careers of key figures in CBC who wanted to advance in their careers, access to per diems that came with funding
3. Business: publishers could inheritance of books by siblings by saying these are new books, and kids have to write in their "workbooks"
Ps..I don't think private schools pushed for CBC, but CBC was still a business advantage for their marketing
Ps..I don't think private schools pushed for CBC, but CBC was still a business advantage for their marketing
Of course, nobody was going to tell Kenyans all this, so they did a propaganda war. They badmouthed CBC using anti-Moi sentiments in older, colonized generation who were nostalgic for Griffin and Welch, and the education traumas of younger ones that had no relation to curriculum
That's how we got CBC.
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