During the colonial era, most of Kenya’s children were denied schooling. The post-independence government thus found itself having to hire vast numbers of teachers, many of them unqualified, to cope with the influx of black students attending school for the first time.
在殖民地时期，大部分肯尼亚孩子得不到教育。因此，在独立后，政府发现需要聘请大量教师来教导大量首次来到学校上学的孩子，而教师往往资质不够。但是，如今受过培训的教师已经供过于求。事实上，他们中有许多人现在只能去南苏丹等邻国寻找工作，几十年的冲突使那里存在大量教师短缺。