Maisha Kazini: The academy has lost its soul: A conversation with Mordecai Ogada (part I)

Mordecai Ogada gives us his thoughts on the decay of Kenyan intellectual life: cynical faculty, jaded students, internal brain drain, the tyranny of the written text, and what he calls "aggressive ignorance." Mordecai Ogada is a carnivore ecologist and a consultant on conservation policy. 0:00 Introduction 0:44 The cynicism in Kenyan academic life 3:08 The commercialization of the Kenyan academy 9:13 The sacrifice of faculty expertise to finance and administration 13:04 The internal brain drain 19:53 Staffing contradictions in the conservation sector 26:52 How Kenya loses biodiversity due to lack of expertise 30:22 Watu wa mkono 33:05 The role of race 40:00 Travelling abroad 42:23 The hatred of knowledge in Kenya - and literature based oppression like BBI