Jamhuri High School - Class of '91

We joined Jamhuri High School on 25th January 1988, having come from diverse family and educational backgrounds, and were beginning a new chapter in our young lives. I was relieved that in the multitude of strange faces were a few guys from my primary school. Although we would soon form many new friendships, our first instinct was to gravitate towards each other. Among my former schoolmates was Collins, whom I had been quite close to in primary school. It was great having him around. We even found out that we had been posted to the same stream. During our times, bullying of form 1s (some of the older guys referred to us as ‘rabble’) was not rampant in the school. Maybe that is because it was a day school. But there are those who would still have wanted to try and have a go at us. I was somewhat physically tiny when I joined high school, and I would have been a prime target for bullies. But some good fortune favoured me. My friend, Collins, had a cousin in f...