There is uproar over the reported rape of a form one boychild in a well-known boys school in Nairobi. Shame!! This is likely not an isolated incident. This is a matter rarely talked because raising such could bring on matusi ya ushenzi. but dorobo as a father and grandfather is expressing disgust in this rant. Kenya is currently implementing the f***ing 100% school transition rate policy and this has overcrowded school dormitories. So we expect that this evil in the dorms and other parts of the school compound is going to grow. Parents of kids especially in the so-called big schools for boys – all except Starehe Boys - kaeni rada.
Speaking of Starehe, we all know it was founded by the late Dr Geoffrey Griffin (1933-2005). How? Well, we had the state of emergency starting 1952 and many teenage boys got arrested alongside adults for being part of Mau Mau. They went through ‘processing’ and depending on radicalization levels, got sent to prisons all over the colony that had different levels of notoriety. The most hard core went to the infamous Manyani in the Tsavo plains. Griffin had briefly served in the military fighting Mau Mau but he vomited on his uniform and quit because he abhorred the brutality of colonial forces. He opted for rehabilitative services where, as most citations chime, went round prisons separating out young mau maus and getting them into purpose built youth detention centres. Now no one tells you exactly why Griffin saw urgency in this given that the boys were as gangster as the next adult. No account of the much researched tumultuous emergency years explains the goings on in mau mau detention cells. Apparently taking of young mau mau as prison ‘wives’ by adults was prevalent. In the attached letter seen by dorobo some years back, some Mau Mau convict ninjas Boro and Njoroge wrote to Governor Baring complaining of ‘usoga” by Mau Mau convicts who had been arrested in Nairobi. Dorobo connected the problem now in our schools with what took place then, and theorized the two occurrences were connected by references to Nairobi. Prisons then had two types of mau mau, the Nairobi variety and the Forest variety. No way ‘usoga’ was coming from forest gangs. The forest Mau Mau more or less strictly observed African traditional taboo regarding usoga. But where would Nairobi Mau Mau have learnt this evil? Sordid night-life in the crowded African quarters of Nairobi? Interaction with loose-wristed swahilis in majengo? In the torture/processing that took place after operations (eg Operation Anvil of 1954) to arrest mau mau in the city, could there have been undocumented and unspoken of southern US-style ‘buck breaking’ sessions specific to the area?
Anyway, the Eldoret-born Griffin convinced colonialists to establish a separate prison camp for boys in Embu. This was in 1955 and the place is called Wamumu. The place became the nucleus of the future Starehe Boys Centre. It is here that his long-time side-kick Gikubu stepped up from a sully mau mau ruffian to a leader and Griffin-clone. Mzito Griffin never married and many whispered he was fruitish. This was upumbavu unugu na wivu. He was celibate as he confessed his job never allowed time to bembeleza mwoman. Celibacy was a tight rope and he retained a highly acclaimed public confidence by observing a simple rule – never be alone with a student. He had a long-time office secretary, a Catholic nun who also served as some sort of alibi, he never closed his office door so she could hear and see everything that took place there.
The Wamumu rehabilitation camp (now exists as a primary school) also birthed the paramilitary national youth service and Griffin was able to multitask usonko shuttling between Starehe i and the Thika Road Hqs of NYS. Despite Waiguru’s and Ngirita’s efforts to f*** NYS, it is still shines as a conduit for young people to brighter futures
Now Starehians have come of age where they are part of the ruling generation. They are eclipsing older but snobbish schools like Alliance and Mang’u by the sheer number of trending CEOs… For this, dorobo considers Griffin the greatest Kenyan ever. . This abomination in schools that has been in our schools is an affront to the boychild. It must be countered in a way that will honor the memory of Griffin.
And students of these mongoloid schools take a simple lesson from Starehe or how schools of our time, whether form ones are bullied or not, seniors never ever stand, sit - leave alone sleep- near a mono. dorobo out.
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