Table of Contents

The Author Preface A Note on Names PART ONE: BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 1. Historical Background 2. Early Days of the Protectorate 3. First Impressions 4. Races and migrations 5. The First World War PART TWO: THE COLONY DURING THE INTER-WAR YEARS 6. The Coast 7. Principal Events and Politics 8. Changes PART THREE: GOVERNMENT IN THE AFRICAN LANDS 9. The Field Administration 10. African Authorities PART FOUR: LAND 11. Agrarian Problems of the African Lands 12. The White Highlands PART FIVE: THE LATER COLONIAL PERIOD 13. The Second World War 14. Post-war Settlement and Kikuyu Politics 15. The Mau Mau Revolt 16. Economic Development PART SIX: TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE 17. The Lancaster House Conference and the End of the Colony 18. The Wind of Change APPENDIX I: POLICY AND THEORY APPENDIX II: AFRICAN LAWS AND CUSTOMS

Promotional Information

Fazan's story - now published for the first time - provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.

About the Author

S.H. Fazan was a Provincial Commissioner in Kenya. A classical scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1911 he sailed to British East Africa (Kenya) where he worked continuously for the next thirty-one years in agricultural development in Africa, being latterly also an ex-officio member of the Legislative Council. He returned to Kenya between 1949 and 1963, and his most notable appointments during these years were as Defence Secretary, member of the Mau Mau Detainees Appeals Tribunal and the Committee for the Study of the Psychological Causes of Mau Mau. John Lonsdale is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University Reader in African History, University of Cambridge.