Were most of the staff at the Baraka School American rather than Kenyan or East African?
The staff was a mix of Africans and Americans. A big flaw in the program was there were no African American male role models for those kids. The teachers were all very well-meaning. A lot of them had worked for the Peace Corps and different NGOs, and were young and kind of hopeful and optimistic people. It was about half and half between Africans and Americans. All the Americans were white, though? Yes, all the Americans were white with the exception of one counselor who was an African American woman. That was the first thing we asked when we got to the campus. Whoa, the number of people you meet who are white, and you’re in Africa. It’s totally strange. We asked them, and they said they tried to recruit African Americans, but they didn’t have much success. They pay the teachers $5,000 a year, which is extremely low. But at the same time, they should have tried harder. But the teachers that were there were very, very dedicated and loved the kids. And that mattered a lot to the kids. Th
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