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The university that was built over the dead body of a racist

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Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi and the Dedan Kimathi Dedan Kimathi University of Technology. [File, Standard]

When a white supremacist was approached by a group of African leaders to sell part of his land in the white highlands so that a technical institute could be established, he was livid.

The supremacist, Johnston Rex Ronald Hope, a coffee planter who had named his expansive estate in Nyeri, Gungunyumu, (dry firewood) to depict how tough he was, could not fathom the idea of surrendering even an inch of his slice of white highlands to Africans.

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