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Get out of the city and leave the schools alone

Learners raise hands to respond to a question in an elementary school. [Getty Images]

Kisumu and Eldoret have a strange connection. Want to guess?

One is a city the other is aspiring to be one. One is cold, the other is humid. One has more immigrants than the other. One is in the highlands, the other by the lake. Both have a university and an airport.

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