Newest kid on the block, varsity named after Tom Mboya

An artist paints the Tom Mboya University College Logo at the newly erected gate in Homa Bay town. The University is set to enroll its first students on September 1, 2015.

HOMA BAY: Flamboyant trade unionist and educationist behind the popular ‘air lifts’ that would change the face of education on the continent never lived long enough to see his dream of tertiary education for the masses come true in his own backyard.

Forty years after his demise, Tom Mboya’s name will once again be engraved on a national institution; Homa Bay County’s first ever university.