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What Happened to the Universities?

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University is a noun that can be plainly be described as an institution of higher learning. This could be the palpable reason many varsity students are high on drugs half the time they are on campus if not the whole time. A more intricate definition refers it to as “A number of persons associated into one body, society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc.” Further, the word it also means “the whole, aggregate or the entire” from universes in Latin. I have noticed a gradual paradigm shift creeping on what the universities were in their antiquity. Ergo, I want to authoritatively posit my thoughts on the existing current of the state of Universities in Kenya in contrast of the status quo ante. If that sounds interesting lets hop into it: When I was growing up I eagerly looked forward to joining the university. I had read from my history of how the nation’s university scholars were the ones shaking up the colonial regime before independence. Tom Mboya and James Orengo were among