Kenya wasn't the only country that charged fees for primary school, right?
At the time, children in some 92 countries had to pay to go to primary school. It had been a policy of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the 1970s and 1980s to say to governments in poorer countries, "you can't afford to educate children unless you share the costs with the parents." It was a disastrous policy. A series of national campaigns led to the abolition of those fees. That's the main reason today that, compared to 2000, there are 50 million more children in primary school [around the world]. And Maruge was a powerful advocate for education