Harro! I shrub because, really, I have no otherwise, do I?
A signboard pinned on a tree at Sangach Primary School in Marakwet East Consistency discouraging mother tongue speaking at the school on October 27, 2011. FILE PHOTO | NMG
In the days when university breaks were occupied through teaching as untrained teachers, I taught history in a posh private school.
One day, the headmistress, an Irish nun, found me looking crestfallen and asked, “You do realise you can tell me if anything is wrong, don’t you? Tell me.” I told her. My students had laughed at me.
