It may finally happen. After years of debates about the contribution of social science and humanities, to the understanding of the human condition, we may finally see the likes of history, linguistics, sociology, geography anthropology and philosophy either deliberately underfunded into extinction or actually banished from our education syllabus. The reason, as Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto recently put it eloquently, these are not the kind of disciplines required by our growing (or is it stagnant-albeit declining?) economy. Curiously, economics and law were spared the onslaught, probably because graduates of these disciplines do not roast maize on the roadsides like anthropologists and historians. This is not new talk. These debates have always been around us as long as universities have existed. What is telling is that much more advanced economies such as North America and Western Europe have been there and done that. What have the debates achieved? The j...
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