Sam Esther

OF THE INTELLECTUAL-CUM-PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL “If you want to interact effectively with me, to influence me -- your spouse, your child, your neighbour, your boss, your co-worker, your friend -- you first need to understand me” (Covey). I found it useful to quote these words from a highly sold and read authority called “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. In this context, I’ll centre my discussion on the 5 th habit, “ Seek First to Understand, Then to be understood”. I ’ll not point a finger at anyone but will mercilessly strip out the shameful hullabaloo that happened in The 17 th January 2015 College Baraza. If you too were the witness will either support me or disagree with me, or simply dismiss me to a cockney (spoilt adolescent) student who does not know anything. And that will be a mistake! A slight disagreement that happened was the case with time. The so called wananchi (the likes of me) were given 30 minutes to present their vie...