I ENROLLED at the University Academy after the Covid-19 pandemic began to reach its height. It was not quite so serious yet, but Covid would soon leave many businesses wrecked during the lockdowns to prevent and contain its spread, schools would close, and workers would retreat home and start working online. At the lecture hall the morning I reported, the desks were arranged at least a metre apart observe social distancing. It made it awkward to interact with the students neighbouring you to chit chat and at least ask each other’s names. But this was soon sorted out after our lecturer, a warm and friendly-looking middle-aged man with a trimmed, greying beard, walked into the hall."I am Sean Bellows. Welcome to the global trade and finance pioneer class here at University Academy. We can’t start things as strangers. I want each one of us to share their name and country of origin. To spice things up, you could tell us what your name means if you come from cultures where people are named after things, situations, the weather, of whatever," he smiled as his suggestion elicited a few laughs of excited anticipation. There followed a bustle of activity as some went on Google to find the meaning of their names. I had no business with Google; I knew what Wairimu from Mt. Kenya meant.The first to introduce herself was a Russian girl. It struck me that chemistry appeared to have...
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