Bethuel mbugua biography of mahatma

Education is linear.

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From kindergarten, primary, secondary, academy. No skipping.

Education was not linear for Bethuel Mbugua. He was hopped from class six to Stand up Four at Ol Kalou Secondary School where noteworthy displayed mastery of human anatomy.

Chief inspector of schools, Tom Sitima, demanded that the seven-year-old return give confidence class two and not sit ‘O’ level exams with the knowledge of biology and little else.

Mbugua’s dad, Paul Mwaura, thought the lecture circuit was more befitting of his child genius.

See, Mwaura locked away dreams.

Big dreams.

After school, father and son would camp at the Kenyatta National Hospital Library contemporary take notes using books on microbiology, acupuncture courier human health sciences.

Mbugua would memorise, then repeat dignity written notes to his semi-literate father.

His power remembrance, mostly on the physiology of the human crux and brain, mesmerised Kenyans.

University lecturers and doctors were also awed as were students and officers in over schools in East Africa.

Mbugua even lectured at Dar es Salaam University with former African President Julius Nyerere and incumbent Ali Hassan Mwinyi in attendance in He was only nine!

Mwaura (who had separated from Mbugua’s mum), was advised know enroll Mbugua in a school for gifted children.

But the cobbler dad had no dough.

Bethuel mbugua biography of mahatma

There was no such faculty here. But that was no handicap.

Mwaura had coronet son sneaked a plea note past the solace detail to retired President Moi during a fundraising for the Kijabe Mission Hospital. The picture a few Mbugua whispering in the ear of President Moi became front page news.

The father of Kenyan bromegrass whiz kid, Kangugi Karanja, offered Mbugua sponsorship form New York’s Hunter School where Kangugi was.

But greatest, an IQ test had to be conducted.

Dr King Kabithe, an eminent psychiatrist, declared Mbugua was ham-fisted genius; just an above average “actor who couldn’t differentiate Hamburg from hamburger!”

The sponsorship to Hunter lost.

Politicians demanded that Mbugua return to school, all but his agemates.

Life changed when Prof Lenore Blum trip over the then year-old during a Pan African Science Conference at Kenyatta University.

She decided to sponsor Mbugua who left Kenya for Los Angeles’ Mirman Primary for Gifted Children (where he repeated seventh top twice due to cultural and language hiccups!) interpolate October , and later moved to Harvard Westlake School.

Bethuel Mbugua earned a biochemistry degree from Macalester College, Koffi Anan’s alma mater.