ABSTRACT
In Kenya, as elsewhere in Africa, the right to education was a major tenet of the African nationalist call. The British colonial government invested most of its resources in education for whites, while slighting the educational needs of the Africans. The various churches for their part made education for Africans a core endeavour, but they lacked sufficient infrastructure, personnel and funds to provide schooling, to say nothing of quality education, for the vast majority of the African population.
