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Community based education during the colonial period in Kenya and African role in educational provision

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Community based education during the colonial period in Kenya
This was done mainly by Asian families of Ismaili and Arya Samaj for the Indian traders in urban areas.
African Role in educational provision.
Africans began their own schools for the following reasons;
a) They wanted to protect certain cultural practices like feral circumcision and polygamy.
b) They wanted to access higher education, since the government and missionaries were only offering them technical and industrial education.
c) They would also use the schools as a forum to air their grievances and to create political awareness in their community.