With ‘boarding parents’ that mimic the roles of a mother, a father, or a nanny; waking up a child on time, supervising bed-making, showers, and homework; and the leeway to pick children for home dinners, elite boarding schools in Kenya are increasingly becoming attractive to foreigners. To some, Kenya’s elite boarding schools should start being marketed as the region’s best, owing to the increasing number of international students.
At Brookhouse School Karen along Nairobi’s Magadi road, foreign students account for 45 percent of 760 student population in both day and boarding school, from early learning, primary and secondary.
