How the British stole New Zealand from the indigenous maori people. This is what the invading british had also planned for kenya. Good thing that our freedom fighters stopped the british and and kicked them out.

Fact is that the maori signed treaties with the british thinking they were leasing land to the british for a limited period of time, but little did they know that the translated document (english version) was different and gave the brits absolute transfer of the land. If the maori had an uprising after realizing that they had been conned, a violent uprising like the mau mau where european settlement on stolen land was made risky/suicidal, then they may have gotten their land back, and New Zealand would be today a maori country and not a white man's stolen land.

The modus operandi of the white man during colonization was always the same, i.e., go to some distant lands, cause trouble, shoot several people with your superior weapons, then negotiate for a ceasefire, aka treaty with the locals, which includes the locals surrendering part of their land, then once settled on an area cause more and more trouble so as to get more and more land until the whole country is colonized.

One of the biggest mistakes Kenyans make when discussing the period before independence is to talk of Colonialists or Wabeberu as if it was one group of people who came from one place.

Kenya had different groups of wazungu and they all never got along. There were settler farmers who even amongst themselves were divided. When Kenya was a colony Britain had an Empire which included Britain, Canada (Until 1931) India, South Africa and many other countries. Australia had only recently got independence in 1901 and New Zealand in 1907. The settlers came from all over the Empire. Most were from Britain but there was a significant population from South Africa, Boers who never spoke English who settled in Uasin Ngishu and Trans Nzoia. There were also people from New Zealand and Australia, I have read about there being an American as well.

Settlement began in 1902 and most of the early settlers were adventurer businessmen and people with money. Most notable being Lord Delamere who came to settle in 1901 and akina Ewart Grogan. These settlers were actually an afterthought. Britain had built an expensive railway and they were looking for ways to pay for it. Settlement along the railway line and establishment of economic activity seemed like a good idea. Delamere was the most influential. He bankrupted his whole fortune in the UK in his enterprise in Kenya. He was heir to a great deal of old money that included an estate that measured 6,000 acres in England. Aliuza yote ikakwisha in his Kenyan adventure. He would convince people to come settle in Kenya and come become farmers growing coffee, maize, rearing cows for beef, pigs etc. Up until 1918 most people did not want to come and the few who did most had no money, did not know how to farm and many actually went bankrupt. Someone correct me but I believe the minimum land one could get allocated was one square mile which is equal to 640 acres. So they were scattered all along the railway line in very remote places with no money to bring equipment to farm or money to pay for labor until some genius came up with a brilliant idea.

One of the unintended effect of the Railway line restriction of movement and establishment of peace, introduction of medicine and explosion f population. The Kikuyus used to fight with the Maasai all the time. So warriors were always needed and they were always engaged. When there is peace warriors stay at home and make babies. Soon there was a population explosion in Kikuyu land. The land that the Kikuyu used to flow over to in Kiambu which was originally Ndorobo land was part of what had been taken. So the brilliant idea for the wazungus was to bring in Kikuyus as labor. But that is not what they told them. They told them that they are taking them to a place where they will give them a place to farm. They will give them a githaka where a man and his wife can clear a bush and grow their own fod keep his livestock and prosper. In exchange they can do some little work for the mzungu some few days a week. Kikuyus were so happy they moved in their thousands. Soon the Ruguru Kikuyus were the envy of their Central Kikuyus. They had so much land to farm, had so many goats and could marry many wives. Girls also wanted to be married by rich guys in the settler farms. These were the original squartters.

In 1918 the first world war ended and the settler population changed. A new wave of settlers came. This new wave was ex military officers who were being given a piece of the empire as a gift for their bravery in war. These were among the more useless wazungus who had no skills, always wanted serikali to saidia and felt entitled to things.

I am jumping here kidogo but there was another group that also came after the second world war in 1945. Even more useless and dependent on government. These last group that arrived in 1946 were given leases for 44 years and were assured that they would always be under the protection of the British Government. If there was to be a lot of negotiation tungepata Uhuru 1990.

After the world war Europe was giving out independence like candy on Haloween!! In some places like Zim - the mzungus in the country declared independence from the Mzungus in Europe. Even SA had independence in 1910. Just because you are "independent" does not mean you are free of the Mzungu. Austrlia, New Zealand, Canada, USA all got 'independence/dominion' from the "Mkoloni".

Any update on how the gentleman is doing under intensive care?

Expected to resign next spring aka March because his salary is too low.

https://metro.co.uk/2020...ary-is-too-low-13441960/