About Humphrey Oborah
Humphrey Oborah was born along the shores of Lake Victoria (Kenya) to peasant African farmers who could only manage one meal per day. His father had to go fishing in Lake Victoria while he, the mother and smaller siblings would tend to the farms.
He started school earlier than the normal age (4years old) at the time but did extremely well in Primary School, which was a typical Kenyan Rural School made of iron sheet roof and earthed walls. In such schools, students would sit on floor and nearly everyone had no shoes. Oborah actually wore
the first shoe going to High School and this must be stressed as the usual
norm for all rural African children.
His great performance in national examinations at primary school level saw him admitted to a far location away in another Kenyan Province (Kitui,
Eastern Kenya Province) from where he again excelled and joined A Level
Studies in Nairobi Province (Dagoretti High School) and later to join
University of Nairobi for a Bachelors Degree and later masters and PhDs in
renowned world universities.
Perhaps his biggest achievement is in his election as the first President of
The Federation for Gifted and Talented – Africa ( www.giftedafrica.org ), which is an affiliate of The World Talent Federation(www.worldtalentfed.org).
In this regard, he is instrumental for bringing home the entire secretariat of The World Gifted and Talented in Nairobi, Kenya on 26th March 2010, which was attended by a strong delegation from The World Talent Federation and African Government authorities. He late rose to become the Secretary General /CEO of The World Talent Federation.
The visit saw the launch of the Federation in Africa, for the first time, and the beginning of Professional & Scientific Gift and Talent Assessment HENCE Talent Based Learning. The first Anthropo-Biometric Machine was donated at this time to the African Federation.
In related efforts, he has enabled a number of Universities to offer Credit
Transfers to degrees for those that were denied access to further education
due to rigid admission processes as well long standing traditions that were
not only lengthy but equally expensive to adult learners. He made this
possible against a backdrop of high level criticism but later became the
Director of Talent at The Council for Experiential Accreditation and Learning – Africa ( www.cael-africa.org )
He believes in latent potential known as “talent” and remains the biggest
advocate of Talent Based Learning in Africa and the world at large.To him, the world can only be a better place if and only when the society allows the Gifts or Talents, we posses, to flourish in all our learning and related education systems.
