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Kisii "boom town", 2012

New flats rising over Kisii University town campus — the hills' town, still growing.

Kisii "boom town", 2012
Kisii town expanding — new flats photographed from Kisii University town campus, 2012. — Moshe Njema / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Photographed in 2012 from the town campus of Kisii University College: apartment blocks rising everywhere as the district capital filled in. From the 1966 street scene to this — one town, two generations of growth.

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Archival photograph held in the digital museum's visual record. See the image caption for source and licence.

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