Author: S. H. Fazan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-11-14
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0857737848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.
Author: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9004435204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.
Author: Marjorie Ruth Dilley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780714616551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the time of this book’s original publication in 1938 the state if Kenya was exciting much interest and controversy and Miss Dilley’s work was recongnized as an important contribution towards understanding what was at once the most fascinating and the most difficult of all the colonial problems facing the British government. This book is a specific study of British policy in Kenya during this period as the author felt this was particularly pertinent in light of the complexity of the situation in Kenya. The work begins with a survey of the geography, racial groups, history and government organizations of Kenya Colony and Miss Dilley than traces the development and application of the policy which the British Government expressly undertook to maintain – a trusteeship for native races. She also gives a fair and lucid account of the growth of political organizations among the European settlers and describes the history of such past controversies as the ‘Indian Question’ and land alienation. Finally there is a brief section on the application of the principle of trusteeship which deals with the labour question and the industrial and agricultural problems of the colony.
Author: R. Mugo Gatheru
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005-06-28
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Beginning with the advent of Europeans in the late 1800s, this volume presents Kenya as a land of contrasts--in geography as well as people. Gatheru discusses the viewpoint of the Kenyan people, enumerating the events and attitudes which led to the eventual eruption of violence" -- Provided by publisher.
Author: William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9789966469632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brett Shadle
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0719098289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kenya’s white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously – though not uncritically – what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars and students alike.
Author: Robert M. Maxon
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780838634868
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book details the evolution of British policy toward Kenya from 1912 to 1923.
Author: Abdullahi Sara
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1498510663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work examines the history of colonial administration and economic development policy in Kenya during the early colonial period of 1909-1912. Abdullahi Sara provides analysis of the existing administration and economic condition and also possible courses of action that can be taken to remedy Kenya’s administrative and economic predicaments. Kenya at a Crossroads serves as a detailed source of information for college and university students, professors, and researchers in imperial and colonial studies as well as in the areas of history, economy, and administration.