Prof Laban Ayiro refuses to board his hype train. Despite summiting the pinnacle of Kenyan higher education, he insists on sleeping four hours a day, marking his papers, teaching his 90 PhD students, 30 Master's students, and showing up to the gig, growing Daystar University from about 400 students to 8,400 presently. He renews his vows with academia every day, and his fealty to excellence, the undercurrent that steadies the eddies in his life.
A professor of research methods and statistics, the Vice Chancellor of Daystar University, a research consultant, a church elder, and a former civil servant, Professor Ayiro started his career in 1977 in Namulungu Secondary School in Western Kenya, as an assistant teacher, later holding stints as Head Teacher in Kegoye and Lubinu High Schools.
