ABSTRACT
Wummit is located in one of the poorest and least fertile areas of Kenya. Subsistence farming is the main income source for the people in the area, but for the last twenty-five years the harvest has decreased due to lack of rain. Severe and returning droughts have led to famine in the area. Wummit had a reputation for being an easy-going college with less discipline of students. Classes started at seven fifteen in the morning and continued until four in the afternoon, followed by obligatory co-curricular activities three times a week until six o’clock. Wummit represented a fine-meshed net designed to further social relations and minimise social conflicts, but in a less steep and authoritarian way than many other colleges. Wummit had a flat structure in the ways in which administrative issues were raised, power was exerted and individuals and groups related to each other. Morality is an important element of culture and is inherent in all social settings.
