What were the major political and socio-economic changes introduced by the British colonial authorities in Kenya. What did the authorities seek to achieve by these changes?
When the British colonised Kenya in the late nineteenth century they brought about many political and socio-economic changes, including changing the mode of production to capitalist, the introduction of an improved infrastructure and the establishment of chiefs in 1906 when Britain established affective political control over the Kenyan people, as well as more minor changes such as the introduction of mission schools and the improvement in education. In this essay I shall discuss the major political and socio-economic changes that were introduced by the British as well as the motivating reasons for why the British decided to implement these changes; what the authorities sought to achieve.
One of the first fundamental political and socio-economic changes that the British introduced to Kenya was to establish......
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