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Odera Akang'o: Force behind Gem's fountain of professors

Workers hoist Prof George Magoha's banner at St Marys School, Yala, in Gem, Siaya county. [Olivia Odhiambo, Standard]

When paramount chief Odera Akang'o stamped his authority by ensuring every child in Yala, Gem, Siaya County, few were on board as he laid the groundwork for the country's future in academia.

A benevolent dictator, Akang'o went door-to-door in a crusade for compulsory enrollment of children in school in the early '50s, making the area among the first to embrace formal education.

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