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The making of Kenya since pre-colonial, colonial, independence, post independence and millennium Kenya. History preserves heritage.

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11/10/2022

Dates and events defining Kenya since time immemorial>>>>>>>

PRE_COLONIAL PERIOD

50 BC: First written record of life on the
East African coast.
8th century AD: First contact with Muslim
traders from Arabian Peninsular and Iran.
14th and 15th centuries: Flourishing of Swahili
coastal towns on Indian Ocean trade routes.
1510: Portuguese sacking of Swahili
coastal towns.
1698: Mombasa and other coastal towns
captured from the Portuguese by Arabs, who
remained in control until the 19th century.
1840-90: The slave trade at its height in the
Kenyan interior.
1885-86: The Congress of Berlin divided
East Africa between Britain and Germany.

COLONIAL PERIOD

1895: Kenya declared a British protectorate
1896-1901: Building of the Uganda Railway
from Mombasa to Lake Victoria; British
conquest of Kenya.
1903-14: Settlers began to acquire land in the
Highlands; eviction of Maasai and Kikuyu.
1914-18: Thousands of Kenyans conscripted
into the World War I campaign against the
Germans in Tanganyika.
The 1920s: Beginning of political struggles.
1939-45: Thousands of Kenyans fought
in World War II, as far afield as Burma.
1944: Formation of the Kenya African Union
(KAU).
1946: Jomo Kenyatta returned from England,
having left Kenya in 1931; became President of
KAU in the following year.
1952: the State of Emergency was declared. Start of the
Mau Mau uprising. Kenyatta was arrested, tried,
and imprisoned.
1953-55: All political parties banned.
1954: Swynnerton Plan to consolidate
land holdings.
1960: Formation of Kenya African National
Union (KANU) and Kenya African Democratic
Union (KADU).
1961: Kenyatta was released from prison and
became President of KANU.

12/10/2021

Chronology to The Colonization of Kenya

Little is known of the early history of Kenya’s interior, except that peoples from all over the African continent settled here. Arab merchants established trading posts on the coast during the seventh century.

The Portuguese took control of coastal trading from the early 16th century, but by 1720 they had been driven out by the Arabs. For the following century, the coastal region was ruled mainly by the Arabian Omani
Around 1750 the Masai, a people of nomadic cattle-herders whose young men formed a military elite (el morani), began entering Kenya from the north and spreading out southwards, raiding and rustling. At the end of the 1850s there were Masai by the coast near Mombasa.

During the 1860s, the Masai drove back Europeans attempting to pe*****te the interior of the country. Two outbreaks of cattle-disease in the 1880s, an outbreak of smallpox in 1889–90 and internecine fighting between supporters of two rival chiefs weakened the Masai considerably by the 1890s.

The British East African Company was granted a charter in 1888, which led to the colonization of present day Kenya. When the company became bankrupt the British government took over administration of the colony which they intended to use a gateway to Uganda, Buganda and Bunyoro because there were no minerals to exploit in Kenya. In order to subdue the colony, the British authorities forcibly took land, introduced forced labor and passed legislation that ensured natives became subjects of the British settlers.

The road to colonization of Kenya was difficult for the British because by the turn of the 20th century Indians outnumbered whites 2:1 and the Indian rupee was Kenya’s main currency. It is reported that there were approximately 23 000 Indians and only 10 000 whites. As a means of consolidating power, the British introduced the hut tax in 1902. A certain amount of taxes was to be paid to the government for each hut a family owned. This meant that native Kenyans had to earn money which could only be achieved by working for someone else that could pay them wages.

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