Here is a research on where Kenya’s best and brightest high school brains ended up

1989- KCSE Naaem Samnakay (Alliance High School), top student in 1989- He is now a pediatric surgeon in Australia.

1990 KCSE- David Were (Starehe), he is now an engineer in America.

1991- Humphrey Wattanga( Alliance High School). He went to Harvard and is now in a leading insurance company in South Africa.

1992- David Tengetta. (Mangu High School)- He is an engineer in America.

1993- Kaniaru Wacieru (Alliance High School)- He went to Harvard and is now working in Wall Street.

1994- Kirimania Muriithi (Alliance High School). He went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now a computer engineer in America.

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1995- James Mwangi (Alliance High School), went to Harvard. Now a management consultant in South Africa.

1997- Mwashuma Nyatta (Alliance High School), went to Harvard, now works for Soft Bank as Latin America as head of startups.

1998- Timothy Thairu (Alliance High School). Went to Harvard, now a computer engineer in America.

1999- Samuel Gikandi (Alliance High School). Went to MIT, worked for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, before confounding Africa’s talking. A board member of Stanbic Bank.

2000- Dhar Tishampati (Mangu High School)- Went to Adelaide university in Australia. Now a defense systems engineer in Australia.

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2005- James Kandie Rotich. Went to Kabarak High School. Enrolled in MIT and is now an engineer at Google.

Now you understand why things don’t move in Kenya. Our best fled/were given full scholarships to universities abroad.

The top girl in 2019 KCSE Maryanne Njeri Baraza said she wants to go to Harvard, study medicine, and live in Boston, USA. No Kenya in her future plans.

She made good her plans, she is now a biomedical engineering student at Dartmouth college, an Ivy League college, and may well apply to Harvard Medical school since medicine in America is a postgraduate professional course.

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But can you blame her really in a country where semi illiterate politician thieves are billionaires and PhD holders are broke and tarmacking?

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