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Harvard-trained math genius re-shaping local e-learning

Ed Magema. [File, Standard]

Ed Magema has always been an outlier. From a non-descript high school in the belly of West Pokot, he emerged sixth countrywide in the 2009 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination.

This earned him a place at the prestigious Harvard University where he studied mathematics as his undergraduate course – the only African student in his year.

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