Ogembo

Ogembo is a small farming town in Kisii County, Kenya, whose inhabitants are the Abagusii. The town started around 1860 among the local people, and around the 1920s it became a commercial centre for Indian traders and a government centre for the colonial administration of the area. The surrounding country is well known for banana and tea farming. Ogembo lies about 380 kilometres west of Nairobi and has a population of about 20,000. It has Ogembo Level 4 Hospital, the Bomachoge Chache subcounty offices and the Tendere Tea Factory. Many residents are Seventh-day Adventists, so Saturday is a major day of rest in the town, and Ogembo featured in a November 2017 episode of the American television show Dr. Phil.