The Effect of European Colonialism on Kenya
Subject:
European History [1]
Tags:
Kenya [2]
Republics [3]
Southeast Africa [4]
Jomo Kenyatta [5]
Luhya people [6]
Africa [7]
colonization [8]
Colonialism [9]
Nairobi [10]
Jesse Mugambi [11]
John Arthur [12]
?The?sun?never?sets?on?the?British?Empire,??Great?Britain?often?bragged.?By?1914,?about?85%?of?the?earth?s? surface?was?colonized?by?Europe.?Between?1884?and?1885,?The?Berlin?Conference?took?place?to?carve?up? the?African?continent?(Background?Essay).?Europeans?saw?high?potential?in?Africa?and?thought?the?continent? was?empty,?even?though?it?was?not.?It?was?roughly??untouched??and?they?thought?they?could?do?anything?they? wanted?(Doc.1).?Great?Britain?s?colonization?in?Kenya?affected?the?country?s?religion?and?culture,?education,? and?government.?? European?colonization?in?Kenya?had?a?large?impact?on?Africa?s?religion?and?culture.?Africa?had?over?100? ethnic?groups?in?which?were?effected?from?the?colonization.?(Doc.2).?The?Europeans?believed?that?Africans?