Excerpt 18: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers
He married her on a rainy but approving Saturday, to claps of thunder and flashes of lightning. How marriage then accelerated academic success!
Fathers of Nations Excerpt 18 Answers Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks) Professor Kimani joined the University of Nairobi directly as a
senior lecturer. Even before taking off, he was already flying. There was a
reason. Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda had just dismantled thรฉir University of
East Africa. Kenya's part of the university, now renamed the University of
Nairobi, found itself with a vacancy it had to fill immediately in its
Institute of Development Studies. Professor Kimani, who had just completed his studies at the
University of Oxford, wrote from there
to say he wanted to fill it. To ensure he came and filled it for sure, the
University of Nairobi
raised his entry point from that of a lecturer to that of a senior lecturer. He came. Only a month after his arrival, he launched a noisy
debate in which he demanded that the University of Nairobi henceforth strive
for relevance to the society rather than simply excellence of its work. It was
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