How Alliance, Mangu and Maseno high schools shaped Kenya’s politics

When an accomplished mathematician of international fame was seized by a burning desire to migrate to Africa, Kenya was his natural choice. This was at a time when Europe was awash with stories of Africa’s savagery and how it was in desperate need for salvation and civilisation.

But when the scholar who had served in the First World War as a soldier, Carrey Francis arrived in Kenya in 1928, the Church Scotland Mission saw it fit to dispatch him to Nyanza Province, where he was expected to educate children of African chiefs.