[Getty Images]Touted as a means to material achievement in life, education has a significant role on human development as well. Before formal education was introduced, Africans had their own modes of learning; they transferred knowledge through apprenticeship and storytelling. In Kenya, formal education started in Rabai where the Church Missionary Society (CMS) was established by Johann Ludwig Krapf and his friend Johannes Rebmann in 1846. The two explorers started a school at the mission. As a result, schools started focusing more on vocational training, and correspondingly less on evangelisation.

Source: Standard Digital July 25, 2021 18:33 UTC