Nairobi, 29 October, 2019 / 1:34 am (ACI Africa).
The need to utilize skills acquired in higher institutions of learning to have a positive impact on contemporary society was one of the key highlights of the address of a Kenyan Bishop to the over two thousand students from a variety of African countries who graduated at the main campus of the Nairobi-based Catholic University of Eastern Africa on Friday, October 25, with the Bishop calling for ethical leadership.
“We need a cultural reawakening inspired by a moral and upright leadership,” the chairman of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) Council, Bishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba said in his address during the 38th graduation ceremony of the 35-year-old Catholic institution.
Cultural reawakening, the Kenyan Bishop clarified, “is the environment that awaits you (graduating students) to utilize the skills you have acquired … during the years of study.”
The Bishop of Kenya’s Nakuru diocese encouraged innovation and use of acquired skills for the development of the African continent, echoing leaders during the recent World Economic Forum who noted that Africa’s future is more on innovation for a stronger economy.
“Today Africa is full of promise and it is yearning for innovation and renaissance, renaissance in technology, business, science, and health,” Bishop Muhatia said at the graduation ceremony whose theme was, “Research and innovation for quality higher education: building the Africa that we want.”
