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Kisumu Boys: Where Eric Omondi was no joker

Comedian Eric Omondi and muscle men demonstrate on the high cost of living outside Parliament buildings on February 21,2023. PHOTO: [ELVIS OGINA]

This school, ensconced along Nairobi Road, next to The Aga Khan Hospital, is one of the oldest schools in Western Kenya. Kisumu Boys was founded in 1925 as Indian Primary School courtesy of the colonial government.

The decision to build an all-Indian school was arrived at after the Asian population grew tenfold in Kisumu town.

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