Maranda High School, where Raila Odinga learnt ‘vitendawili’

Maranda High School. Photo: Courtesy.

Maranda High School was established in November 1919 by the late Shadrack Osewe Agot. Osewe, then a divinity teacher at Kapiyo village in Bondo District, approached Amolo Raila, Raila Odinga's grandfather, for land to set up the school. He first built his house, then followed it with a church. Osewe's first pupils comprised the elderly, who were taught how to read, write, as well as Christianity.

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