Kakamega

The local inhabitants are mostly the Luhya tribe, whose main economic activity is mixed farming - cash plus food crop farming and animal rearing. Kakamega serves as the headquarters of Mumias Sugar, previously Kenya's largest sugar processing company located in the town of Mumias. It was the scene of the Kakamega gold rush in the early 1930s, fueled partly by the reports of the geologist Albert Ernest Kitson. Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, an institution of higher learning created by an act of parliament in December 2006, is at the heart of Kakamega town, along the Kakamega-Webuye road. It has spur growth in this capital of Western Province. Kakamega Forest is the main tourist destination in the area. Another attraction used to be the Crying Stone of Ilesi (Ikhongo Murwi) located along the Kisumu-Kakamega highway. …