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AKINYEMI: Today’s preferred careers for the youth are vast, different

Kenya's Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha Prof George Magoha looks on during a physics practical class at Kisumu Girls High School. Are the teachers who were groomed traditionally ready to take up and mentor young people who have been groomed in the unconventional? PHOTO | TOM OTIENO | NMG

By  WALE AKINYEMI

I recently had an eye-opening conversation with a couple of friends.

One spoke of his friend's son. He asked the young man if he was going to join the family business to which the young man replied in the negative.

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