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Why this monument could make Kenya the 'Promised Land'

GPO monument. [Photo: Willis Awandu]

Many things happened in Kenya in 1926. Alliance High School was founded from medical funds meant to construct a hospital in Kikuyu, where returnees from World War I were to be treated.

Peter David Wasawo, the brightest student ever to emerge from Alliance, was born in the year the Happy Valley set held wife-swapping parties in Naivasha.

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