Starehe Centre: Orphans’ refuge that became a beacon of excellence

Inset: Starehe founder Geoffrey William Griffin. At least 14,400 students have passed through Starehe Boys Centre, out of which 70 per cent were from poor backgrounds. [File, Standard]

In the fog of the season’s end, the fabric holding the parchment of imperial colony was violently torn apart, exposing the jailer and the prisoner who had always treated each other with mutual hostility.

Finally, the sun was rapidly setting for the British in the Kenya colony, bringing to an end seven decades of the domination of the black majority by white minorities. The future looked forlorn.