Joseph massaglia lekuton biography
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Joseph massaglia lekuton biography
From cow-dung hut to Harvard:
When Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton receives the M.Ed. degree today from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), he’ll be one of the few graduates whose parents are not proud.
“My mother has no idea what Harvard is,” he says.
“Other people enjoy my success coming to Harvard, and she has no idea. My whole family cannot comprehend what’s going on. They don’t even know what school is.”
As Lekuton celebrates the completion of a Harvard education, his mother and brothers will be half a world away, in a cow-dung hut in rural Kenya.
Shortly after Commencement, Lekuton will join his family to help herd cattle.
He can’t wait.
“No laptops, no phone, just my spear and my club and my red cloth,” he says, describing his traditional dress.
Raised in a remote Maasai village in northern Kenya, Lekuton is a nomad to the core, traveling eagerly between wildly different cultures.
In Cambridge, he has lived in graduate student housing, dressed in crisp khakis