WHITE SETTLERS IN KENYA Colonial Arrival and Settlement in the Kikuyu Homelands, 1901-1908

Sir Charles Eliot, the British Commissioner of East Africa for the British Empire, studied maps of the White Highlands and saw opportunity where the Kikuyu saw their home. In 1902, he declared the fertile lands Crown Land and offered them to British settlers, viewing the land as empty while ignoring the communities already living there.Settlers answered the call. Lord Delamere (Hugh Cholmondeley, ...