Nyeri: Primary school’s new classrooms to replace pre-colonial horse stables

The school was for the settlers’ plantation workers and was dubbed Munyeni Intermediate School to teach Africans basic English and arithmetic.

A school that has been using abandoned horse stables from the pre-colonial period as classrooms is set to get a face-lift.  For over 40 years, abandoned horse stables have served as classrooms at Muringato Primary School.

According to Mwangi Wanderi, a resident of Muringato, the school was for the settlers’ plantation workers and was dubbed Munyeni Intermediate School to teach Africans basic English and arithmetic. The plantation is part of the land on which the government purchased to establish a vocational training centre, which would later become Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKut).