This report describes a 6-month study of Kenya's Harambee Institutes of Technology. Part I traces the history of western education in East Africa, explores the growth of technical education from the 1930's to the present, and explains the Harambee self-help movement, which emerged from the determination of the Luo and the Kikuyu people to remove…

This article compares the varied rates at which formal schooling was institutionalized among four neighboring groups in colonial Kenya: the Idakho, Isukha, Maragoli, and Tiriki peoples. Their different reactions to the Friends Africa Mission school movement is considered as one factor in the availability of schools to each group. (SJL)