Dreadful stuff but worth understanding as it contains the DNA of the administration of modern day Kenya.

Hey Anand. Neither had I before reading the article. The context is the late 1954 stage of the Mau Mau rebellion. Closer supervision of Central Kenya by the colonial government to consolidate the gains of the brutal suppression of Mau Mau and prevent a repeat in the future.

If so I wonder why Strayer does not identify one of the people he writes a lot about in chapter 2, titled 'Bombay Africans and Freed Slaves; A Missionary Prelude to Colonial Rule 1875 - 1900.' [3/3]

This photo on page 50 of 'My Third Campaign in East Africa 1890' by William Salter Price (1898), has the caption Rev. W.H. Jones and Family. Thi photo was most likely made by Price in about 1889 and it looks like the same man seated far right in the photo in Strayer's book. [2/3]

Price wanted to establish a new CMS station near the first inland station of the Imperial British East Africa Co. There he saw for the first time the IBEA Co. flag "on a blue and white ground, a crown, a Union Jack and the rising sun, with the motto "Light and Liberty". [2/2]

This post was erroneous, the red flag of the Sultan of Zanzibar was not lowered until 17 Dec 1961. The compromise to allow the 10 mile strip to remain as part of the dominion of the Sultan even though the British exercised full authority.

He does, let me check with him and I will let you know.

Ultimately the Constitution of Kenya is the supreme law. In it the rights of all are obtained. It is the tool not just against colonization, but subjugation, slavery, injustice, tyranny etc. It offers protection of those who fail to find it elsewhere even in lower courts like Kadhi courts. (8/8)

British allowing Arabs and other Muslims in the 10 mile strip, to continue to resolve personal matters through the Islamic Sharia seems to have been a compromise to gain their consent to be colonized. This happened in 1895 when the Union Jack was raised in Mombasa and the red flag lowered. (7/8)

The end of the slave trade in the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar was greatly resented by the Arabs and their subjects in the 10 mile strip. The people the Arabs enslaved for hundreds of years, came from that 10 mile strip and the greater East and Central Africa. (6/8)