Another Kenyan Teacher Stuns Many After Bagging International Award

A Kenyan teacher on Wednesday, October 23, scooped an international award barely months after Teacher Peter Tabichi was crowned the world's best teacher in the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.

The Asumbi Girls High School Mathematics teacher, Erick Ademba, was feted in the inaugural African Union Continental Teacher Prize, Capital FM News reported.

Ademba was awarded the best teacher after he beat 50 other competitors in the ceremony held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

He received Ksh1,000,000 U.S each at a ceremony held at the AU Headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital.

Citizen Digital reported that the teachers were awarded for achievements such as quality teaching; encouraging desirable behaviors; engaging in activities and networks that enhance the social and cultural value of learning as well as helping students achieve their long-term career goals, by organizing engagement with relevant agencies and information.

 The elated Ademba who spoke after the event pointed out that the prize promotes the image of teaching on the African continent. 

“It should promote the image of teaching. The teaching fraternity will be able to be promoted because this can enable other teachers within Africa to view teaching differently,” he stated

This came months after another Kenyan teacher, Peter Mokaya Tabichi, of Keriko Secondary School in Nakuru, won the prestigious Global Teacher Prize in March 2019.

The Mathematics and Physics teacher who is now known as the World's best teacher was the first African to win the prize that comprised of a whooping Ksh100 million.

Tabichi's feat gifted him global attention where he met US President Donald Trump and also addressed the 74th United Nations General Assembly.

“This morning, President Donald Trump met with Peter Tabichi, the recipient of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize! 

“Peter is a science teacher who gives away 80% of his monthly income to help the poor in his home country of Kenya,” White House Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham posted on Twitter on September 16.

Uhuru later on donated Ksh20 million to Tabichi's school in the aid of the school's infrastructural development.