×
App Icon
The Standard e-Paper
Home To Bold Columnists
★★★★ - on Play Store
Download Now
×
The Standard Group Plc is a multi-media organization with investments in media platforms spanning newspaper print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The Standard Group is recognized as a leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key influence in matters of national and international interest.
  • Standard Group Plc HQ Office,
  • The Standard Group Center,Mombasa Road.
  • P.O Box 30080-00100,Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Telephone number: 0203222111, 0719012111
  • Email: [email protected]
Premium

Magoha: The inimitable, intimidating giant

Living
 

Former Cabinet Secretary of education Prof. George Magoha during the National launch of re-engineered national education management information system (NEMIS) on 22nd August 2022. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

In between games of FIFA14, we huddled together to pore over George Albert Omore Magoha's curriculum vitae, wondering if our best efforts would ever make us half as good as he was.

The 51-page document was both intimidating and motivating. Here we were in Prefab 4, the wooden hostels for freshmen at the University of Nairobi, straight from adding top grades to our half-page CVs and hoping that the School of Engineering would be kind to us, and we were already scared reading through a CV so detailed we would need several lifetimes to get ours there.

Related Topics


.

Similar Articles

.

Recommended Articles