Saint Petersburg.
East Africa is full of doers. Before it even finalized the decision to dig under Tsarist Russia's walls, it had already organized personnel to scout the country, and the first stop was Russian universities.
Tsarist Russia took education relatively seriously. Besides Saint Petersburg and Moscow, places like Kyiv and Warsaw, which were economically developed and relatively open, also had decent higher education strength.
Of course, compared to East Africa, Tsarist Russia's higher education followed a classic elite track, with very few universities; but that also meant the teaching quality at Russian universities was relatively high—at the very least, far stronger than most East African institutions.
The ones leading the "gold‑panning" trip to Tsarist Russia this time were East Africa's Deputy Minister of Education Laidler and Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Maurice.
