Who Is Behind Unemployment Crisis 🤔

The CV That Never Came Back

Who Is Behind Kenya’s Unemployment Crisis?

Kevin folded his CV carefully for the seventh time that week.

Not because it was old.

Not because it was damaged.

But because every office he entered looked at it for three seconds… then looked through him like he didn’t exist.

“Leave it with us. We’ll call you.”

That sentence became the soundtrack of his life.

Weeks became months.

Months became years.

The degree hanging on his wall slowly transformed from a symbol of hope into a decoration of disappointment.

And Kevin is not alone.

Across Kenya, thousands of young people wake up every morning with dreams bigger than their pockets. They polish shoes, iron shirts, print CVs, and walk through cities carrying ambition like luggage nobody wants to receive.

Yet somehow, the jobs never come.

So the question burns louder every year:

Who is behind Kenya’s unemployment crisis?

Is it the government?

Corruption?

The rich?

The education system?

Or is the entire system designed to produce graduates faster than opportunities

The Promise We Were Sold

From childhood, many Kenyan students were taught one formula:

> Study hard → Get good grades → Graduate → Get a good job → Escape poverty.

Simple.

Beautiful.

Deadly.

Because for many...