Alliance High School Staff and Scholars, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1930

Photograph of staff and scholars of Alliance High School in Kenya. Founded in 1926, Alliance High School was the first school in Kenya to offer secondary school education to Africans. The group photograph, which has been taken outside the school building, shows a group of students dressed in uniform with 4 members of staff, dressed in gowns, sitting in the second row.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenya’s most populous ethnic group.