Most Kenyan lecturers are people who present themselves as neat, well mannered, and organised professionals.
However, if you want to know their true characters, meet them during protests, as it is happening in the country.
This is the time many reveal their true colours, it makes you wonder whether it is the same professor you are accustomed to in campus.
Here are ten types of lecturers you will meet on the streets during strike.
While others will be engaged in protest related activities on the streets, this one will be busy entertaining others with killer skits. If it is not dancing to the latest tunes, he will be doing dangerous acrobatics right at the centre of the highway to attract attention.
The professor here is better off being an activist. You will see him confronting security officers deployed to man the protesters and also hurl the teargas canisters back to the police. He is the loudest among the noisemakers and throws obscenities towards the government.
She will put her profession aside and engage in all manner of weird things on the streets. This is the lady you will see dancing provocatively on the streets without a care in the world about her status.
The way she blasts government for not increasing their salaries will make you wonder if she is the same person in the lecture hall. She will throw herself up and down to the amazement of by-passers and even fellow lecturers.
4.The fence-sitter
He is that fearful guy who sits in the fence and would not participate in demonstrations whatsoever. He will not want to be involved in police confrontations or fall victim to teargas manenoz. For him, his life and family are more important than the money they are fighting for.
He will be screaming at the top of his voice as a way of registering the groups’ grievances. He is rackety and always keeps the group’s momentum high as the strike goes on. He is an extrovert and cant keep quite under any circumstances.
He maintains his professionalism and his cool mien throughout the demonstration period. He dresses smartly, but almost goes unnoticed as his participation is passive. He rarely utters a word and maintains his decorum without engaging in weird shenanigans done by others.
She hides among the protesters and remains invisible throughout the entire period, just to avoid appearing on TV. She will not come out to the front or near the press guys. In simple terms, she doesn’t want to be seen on the streets and will to do everything to avoid any kind of media spotlight.
Unlike the camera-shy above, this one will do everything within his means to appear on the screens. Whenever he sees media people, he will approach them, take their contacts and inform them about an expose he wants to sell to them. He will also do something extra-ordinary to appear on the seven o’clock news.
He may not be talking much in the protests, but he prefers carrying banners with badly written content. They very much love banner content that communicates their grievances, such as hakuna kazi bila pesa, or hatutaki peanuts tena.
She always takes the opportunity to sell her wares. For her, she has to kill two birds with one stone.
You will see her selling water to thirsty colleagues and at another point, she will be selling toothpaste to teargassed members. She always has someone on the side who she sends to fetch the products according to the current demand.
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