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Vihiga Boys: Where rugby champ Collins Injera ate 'obusuma' and 'mzwanda'

Collins Injera is the second highest scorer in the sport

George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), came to Kenya in 1902, a year after the Uganda Railway reached Kisumu. Fox began establishing schools in Western Kenya, but it was not until 1964 that Vihiga High School was established, deriving its name from three big stones resembling cooking stones (mahiga) in the area.

Fox found it interesting and later translated it to Vihiga, which became a boarding school on eight acres in Emia, Vihiga Constituency.

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