Long Post alert.. As the saying goes, Degree ni harambee... One of my most memorable characters in Kenyatta University shall forever remain to be this guy Malcolm Lee Ngugi. This guy was super smart and always upto something...If not the I Love Zain Africa Challenge, it was challenging the University to come up with facilities like rumps , or in Brazil doing some sports stuff... And yeah.. He still is a smart fella. So I had the misfortune of sitting next to Malcolm on two occasions. One was during the examinations for the Zain Challenge. The questions were just out of the world... Like.. Which city do you find Elysee Palace?... Manila, right?? I know. No. We both dont. But Malcolm was over within 19 Minutes... 11 Minutes from the time. He gave me his answer sheet and I was beyond redemption. (Btw I was no. 7 in the whole University... Ata mimi si mchache. But this is not about me.) The next time was this time in 4th Year. Our International Humanitarian Law Lecturer, one Mr. Kibet promised to give us a multiple choice CAT... That was music to my ears. We didnt bother revising. I was actually engaging in some activities I cant even disclose on this wall. And 30 Minutes to time, I was in town. When the time arrived, the lecturer sent another colleague. A pretty young lady you could easily confuse for a classmate, with the exam papers. Only one question. Discuss the History of IHL... Sema confusion... She actually left the room for a min to allow us to confer amongst ourselves. The revolutionary in me was inciting the class to boycott the CAT and plead a technicalities like lack of notice.. When she came back, we had to put pen to paper. I could only jog my mind back to 1859 during the battle of Solferino, with vague memories of later years upto 1947.. Most of my colleagues actually remembered from 1947. Not Malcolm. He started with the writings of St. Thomas Acquinas, then the Lieber Code... And some other stuff I could not even pronounce. I peeped on his paper and so did he mine. I think I heard a chuckle, but my brain had already frozen. I wrote, yeah... The good thing is we only got our final grades. And we all passed... If you get to this point... Congratulations. Life is like that. Sometimes, we have people to help us out, but we actually dont know how to be helped.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:25:23 +0000
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