Kudos @ daily.nchiyetu

Good (and silent) people of VI...you need to check out Nchi Yetu Daily. I finally got round to spending some time to jus idle on the internet and boy! was i taken by the site. I lost all sense of time and spent hours poring through the thoughts, rumblings, inspirations, experiences and diverse wisdom of many kenyan bloggers. It was just amazing the quality of writing that many of the kenyan bloggers have and exploit in the blog craze... Do yourself justice and take a peek daily.nchiyetu.com. I take no responsibility if you are fired from your job for oogling for too long at the site. (Denis expect an invoice!!!)

I have been having conversations with several guys both studying outside and within Kenya about the level of brain drain that Kenya experiences every year when a massive number of form four graduates leave the country for further studies in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc and who after completing their studies and with the overwhelming incentive of job security, better pay and generally better career prospects opt to take up jobs in their countries of study. The different takes that i gleaned from several discussions on the subject were quite interesting and varied; but generally tilted towards condemning our brethren who opt to take jobs out of the country.

One passionate guy argued that kenyan parents spend millions of dollars to educate their children in foreign institutions, which millions of dollars could have been used otherwise to hasten the economic development of the country in a myriad of ways. His cry was that these millions get lost and eventually work to the benefit of the developed countries in whose institutions we sink (positively) in funds. At what point does the investment return to the motherland, was the question he raised.

I got an interesting response thereto in this informative piece. Take a look http://uhurunihaki.blogspot.com/2005/06/brain-drain-chit-chat-for-brain-dead.html

Whats your take