Recent videos from two Kenyan schools during a Form Four prayer day function have sparked a heated online debate over the role parents play in allowing students to publicly acknowledge their romantic partners during school events. The discussions followed separate prayer day incidents in which one Form Four candidate introduced her husband before fellow students,
By Dr. Luchetu Likaka Tito’s words, a son publicly advising his mother on how to live, should not be reduced to spectacle. They should unsettle us. In that moment, something deeply foundational had already shifted. The natural order of guidance, where a parent shapes the direction of a child, was reversed. What we witnessed was