Taranganya
Taranganya, Kuria West, Migori County, Kenya.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Corps - The Great Adventure | Peace Corps | setting | On a trip to Malawi the narrator’s parents, former Peace Corps teachers in Kenya, take the family to the tiny village in Nyanza Province where they served in 1969. |
Peace Corps: The Great Adventure — Peace Corps (1997)
Source: Peace Corps - The Great Adventure · Readwise highlight
Taran’ganya was the place where they had lived and served as Volunteers so many years ago.
- Role: setting
- In the book: On a trip to Malawi the narrator’s parents, former Peace Corps teachers in Kenya, take the family to the tiny village in Nyanza Province where they served in 1969. A former student, now a professor in Nairobi, arranges the 350-mile trip to Kuria District to visit Taran’ganya Secondary School and old classmates, and they find the school twice its old size.
- Why it matters: The village is the emotional destination of a second-generation return story, proof that the parents’ Peace Corps tales were true.
- Real vs. fictional: Name, district and province in the text match one GeoNames village. GeoNames 179548 Taranganya, Migori County, Kenya (populated place, -1.2343, 34.6006); OSM shows Taranganya Boys/Girls schools at about -1.2345,34.602. Kuria is in Migori County, formerly Nyanza Province.