Essay about the history of kenya
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The aim of this coursework is to examine and critically assess, to what extent the British colonisation of Kenya have a positive impact on Kenyan history. As with much historical interpretation, the impact of British colonisation on Kenya is subject to much debate. For many historians, colonialism has had a powerful and lasting impact on Africa. For instance, Crawford Young believes the ”overall colonial legacy cast its shadows over the emergent African state system to a degree unique among the major world regions.”[1] This means that Africa can neither be explained nor understood without first unravelling the continent’s colonial experience. Some historians like Adu Boahen preferred to adopt a middle course and state that ”[2] in some respects the impact of colonialism was deep and was certainly destined to affect the future course events, but in others, it was not.” [3] Moreover, Peter O Ndege elaborated in his lecture that Kenyan ‘communities were highly acephalous and segmented’. Sherriff supports Ndege and additionally connotes that the communities in Kenya ‘for many centuries adjusted themselves to their ecological niches.