Alliance: Premier African boys school that dared defy colonial social order

At the beginning of the 20th century there were several Protestant and Catholic missions which were seeking to establish themselves in Central Province.

The missions had carved out the province amongst themselves in a sort of mini “Berlin Conference”; the Church of Scotland in Kikuyu, the Church Missionary Society in Kabete and parts of Murang’a, the Methodist Church in Meru, Gospel Missionary Society in southern Kiambu, the African Inland Mission in Kijabe, the Catholic Missions at S Austins Muthangari and Nyeri.