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Unsung hero who broke ground in Kenyan athletics

By By PETER NJENGA | 12yrs ago

By PETER NJENGA

KENYA: In 2002, Archie Evans visited Kenya for the last time to celebrate Athletics Kenya’s 50th anniversary, an association he helped establish in 1952 under express authority of the colonial government.

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