Descent From Cherangany Hills. Memoirs of a Reluctant Academic by Benjamin Kipkorir
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The highest bid at the close of this round takes home Descent From Cherangany Hills. Memoirs of a Reluctant Academic by Benjamin Kipkorir — currently worth Ksh 3,090 at retail.
This round funds the Education Programme — supporting school meals, learning materials, and scholarships for students in Makueni County who would otherwise go without.
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About this item
Dr Benjamin Kipkorir was born in Kapsowar, Elgeyo Marakwet County in 1939. He grew up in a very hostile environment although his enlightened father Abraham Kiptum Arap Ng’elech who was an African Inland Mission agent ensured he went to school. He later on joined Government African School Tambach before Alliance high School under Edward Carey Francis becoming the first Marakwet boy to join the prestigious school in Kikuyu. Makerere University in Uganda followed and he once confessed this is where he transformed his life to an Anglophile who would later adopt English mannerisms. Kipkorir continued to further his education by doing his PhD in 1970 at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. His thesis was on the Alliance High School and the making of an African elite in Kenya. When he came back to Kenya he was appointed a lecturer at the University Of Nairobi Department Of History, Director Institute of African Studies and also as an executive chairman of Kenya Commercial Bank (1983 – 1991).
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