Kenya: Primary Schools Don't Need Laptops, But More Desks Would Be Welcome

1 October 2015

It is understandable, for an administration whose campaigns were run on the image of being hip and connected to modern thinking, that confronting evidence which shows the major pillar of the "digital campaign" was mistaken, and continues to prove uninformed and wrong-headed, is difficult.

The "major pillar" refers to Jubilee's campaign promise to provide a digital gadget for all learners entering the first class of primary school in 2014.

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