02/04/2026
Hot take: Internships in Kenya are a scam. I said what I said.
You spend 3 or 4 years in university. You study. You cram. You pass your exams. Then in your final year they tell you to go find an attachment.
So you print 50 copies of your CV.
You walk from office to office in town.
You beg someone to give you a chance.
And when you finally get placed somewhere, you know what happens?
You make tea.
You photocopy documents.
You sit at a desk with nothing to do.
You file papers that nobody will ever read.
For 3 months.
Then they give you a stamp and a letter that says you completed your attachment.
What exactly did you learn?
Nothing.
You learned how to look busy.
You learned how to survive boredom.
You learned that nobody in that office cared whether you were there or not.
That is not training.
That is babysitting.
The system was designed 30 years ago, and nobody has updated it.
The world has changed.
The economy has changed.
The tools have changed.
The jobs have changed.
But we are still sending students to go sit in government offices and count files.
An internship should train you to do the actual job.
You should leave knowing more than when you arrived.
You should leave with real skills, not just a signed letter.
But most companies treat interns like free labor with no obligation to teach them anything.
And the universities do not follow up.
They just need the form signed.
We need to either restructure this entire system or scrap it completely.
Train people to do real work.
Give them real projects.
Hold companies accountable for what they teach.
Or stop wasting everyone's time.
A signed letter does not make you employable.
And deep down every graduate who has done an attachment knows exactly what I am talking about.
— Elvis W.
