in Kenya was established by Johann Krapf at Rabai in 1846. The Africans liberated in Kenya by the Bombay Africans joined the community, and the Bombay Africans married with these formerly enslaved people, who were of diverse ethnic origin but from within the region between modern-day Kenya and Malawi. The Bombay African communities, despite becoming central to notions of freedom, do not appear to have considered themselves as an elite group. This was perhaps as a result of their own experience and empowering leadership. In fact, they encouraged new recruits and eagerly married them, on the provision that they were baptized. Led by the original Bombay Africans, the resultant community focused on education in Kiswahili and on Christianity. As a result, Christianity was taken to new areas by people like Abi Sidi, a formerly enslaved person from Giriama who was baptized at Rabai and established a mission at Fulladoyo which held between 300 and 400 Africans (Harris, 1977, p. 37). There was no Western education institution in the hinterland of East Africa before the completion of the Uganda railway.