WHITE SETTLERS IN KENYA Colonial Arrival and Settlement in the Kikuyu Homelands, 19011908
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
02.01.2026
Verlag
N.w. MartinSeitenzahl
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568 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9798232937201
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, 3rd Baron Delamere) claimed vast acreage in the Rift Valley, dreaming of a farming empire. Families invested everything, but instead of paradise, they found harsh land and relentless danger. Lions ripped through camps at dusk, leopards struck from the shadows, buffalo charged with terrifying force, and elephants trampled everything in their path. Survival became a daily battle against the wild as well as the land's original inhabitants.
In the Kikuyu heartland, powerful Kikuyu leader Karuri wa Gakure, chief of Kiambu in 1903, faces an impossible choice. Provincial Commissioner Sidney Hinde offers him a deal: become a government-recognized chief, or be destroyed. To accept means enforcing the very taxes and labor demands strangling his people, a betrayal that may be their only hope.
For fans of Out of Africa and Flame of Thika, this historical thriller explores the early years of British settlement in Kenya's Kikuyu homelands, following settlers claiming land, battling the wilderness, and the Kikuyu people forced to navigate impossible choices under imperial rule, events that would sow the seeds of rebellion.
Step into colonial Kenya, where the fertile White Highlands were taken by settlers, wildlife tested their survival, and the Kikuyu resisted colonial rule.
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