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Changez: School where students used state house as dorm

Lenana School. (Courtesy)

Lenana School was founded in January 1949 by colonial governor Philip Euen Mitchell in Karen, Nairobi.

This was to respond to Europeans settlers' plea for a post primary institution. The school was known as the Duke of York School, named after a British World War II battleship, and was reserved for white students only within the Kenya colony.

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