“…There is value in receiving both western and Indigenous education. Indigenous education will ground the learner to their root, their culture, their people and their way of knowing (Kenyatta, 1965;Maathai, 2006;Thiong'o, 1986), while western education opens the world to the learner (Heto & Mino, 2023). Indigenous knowledge and western knowledge can coexist but there needs to be intention in prioritising Gīkūyū ways of knowing in the curriculum (Thiong'o, 1986).…”