October 13, 1968 inside Olympic Stadium in Mexico City remains a memorable one for Kenyan women athletics.
It was just three months after Tom Mboya had been killed and the political temperatures were still high. It was also nine months before Neil Armstrong and his crew landed on the moon.
Kenyan women defied the ancient rule book on illiteracy, travelled miles away searching for fame and fortune –and that marked their starting point to ship home the bullion.
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