I read Prof Egara Kabaji's article titled "Don't just focus on STEM, content production is the real goldmine" with muffled amusement and unequivocal disapproval.
The good professor, who taught and mentored me during my undergraduate years at Masinde Muliro University, and whose intellectual acumen and scholarly exploits I am deeply enamoured of, made an outlandish claim that theatre and film, primed to be taught to our senior secondary students, could lift Kenya out of poverty.
This assertion, backed by weak arguments with hardly any credible data, statistics or research findings, cannot go unchallenged.
Prof Kabaji starts by listing the State of California in the US, India and Nigeria as "powerful lessons for the economic strength of creative industries," referencing Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood, the appellations for their respective film industries.
