Essay On Colonialism In Kenya

In the late 1800 European countries came into Africa and colonized the land. The English colonized Kenya. It had many effects on Kenya, good and bad, but the bad outweighed the good. Colonialism affected Kenya badly. It was affected badly because the Kenyans were appointed new leaders that didn’t really care about them and the Europeans didn’t treat them equally and they basically took over their land as if the Kenyans weren’t even there. They also didn’t get paid much and they didn’t get as much education as the Europeans.

When the British colonized Kenya they started appointing new leaders and giving them new kings. The Kenyans were also given new laws that the British put into place. When the Europeans came into Kenya they looked at the land and made plans for it as if there weren’t any people living on it. "We have in East Africa the rare experience of dealing with a tabula rasa, and almost untouched and sparsely inhabited country," stated Sir Charles Elliot in the East Africa Protectorate. He wrote about Kenya as if no one was there and they didn’t care about the people that lived there. ""This great king is now your king," he said. “And this land is all his land, though he has said you may live on it as you are his people and he is
In document 12 there is a chart about the average earnings in agriculture and public services in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya there are obvious differences in pay. The average earnings in agriculture of the European men and African people was really different. While the European men made 509 pounds in 1946 the African people made 13 pounds. It didn't change much after almost ten years in 1955 when the Africans made 31 and the European men made 1,039. It also wasn't too different with the Average earnings in public services. The colonization of Kenya showed an obvious difference in what certain people were being