Alishindwa KCSE Mara Mbili, but today he trains Other how to make 200k monthly, this story will leave you speechless
Samuel Mutua failed his KCSE twice. The second time, the results slip felt like a door slamming shut permanently. He sat with it for three days in his room in Machakos Town, convinced that the system had decided his future for him. Then he borrowed a phone, found the county library’s Wi-Fi password, and opened YouTube. Three years later, he teaches WordPress to 200+ young Kenyans — and they pay him to do it.
The story of Samuel Mutua is not a simple redemption arc. It is something more complicated and more honest than that: a young man who was failed by a system, decided not to be defined by it, and then spent three years building an alternative path — not just for himself, but for everyone else the system had left behind. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FULL WORDPRESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COURSE
“Nilikuwa na hasira,” he admits openly. “Hasira na system, na mwenyewe, na hali zote. Lakini hasira peke yake haifanyi kazi. Nikaamua — badala ya kulaumu, nitatafuta njia nyingine.” He had a friend who worked at a cyber café in town. That friend let him use a computer during slow hours — between 2pm and 4pm daily, for free. Samuel used every minute.
Machakos County Library had been given Wi-Fi as part of a government digital literacy initiative. Most people used it for social media. Samuel used it to watch thousands of hours of WordPress tutorials, read documentation, and eventually build his first test website on a free domain he created at 11pm when the library was technically closed — a security guard he knew let him stay late. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FULL WORDPRESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COURSE
“The first site I built was ugly,” he says with a full laugh. “Colors zote mbaya. Fonts mbaya. Layout mbaya. Lakini ilifanya kazi. Na kufanya kazi — hiyo ilikuwa ya kutosha kuanza.”
Samuel’s bootcamp was not planned. It began as a conversation. A younger cousin asked him how he was making money. Samuel explained. The cousin asked if he could teach him. Samuel said yes. Then the cousin brought a friend. Then that friend brought two more. Within two weeks, Samuel was running an informal class in his sitting room for seven people. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FULL WORDPRESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COURSE
“Nilishtuka kidogo,” he admits. “Sikujua ninachokifanya ni ‘bootcamp.’ Nilifikiria ni kufundisha tu jirani zangu. Lakini walikuwa wanaletana watu, na demand ilikuwa inakua, na nikasema — tufanye hii vizuri.”
He formalised the programme after his first year. He rented a small room in Machakos Town — KSh 8,000 per month — set up five secondhand computers, and created a three-month curriculum that covered WordPress from absolute basics to client delivery. He charged KSh 15,000 per student — a fraction of what Nairobi bootcamps cost. He offered payment plans for those who couldn’t afford it upfront. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FULL WORDPRESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COURSE
