Colonies britanniques en Afrique (document en anglais)

KENYA:

 

Explanation of the flag:

Black color means kenya's people.

Red color means the blood flood during the rebellion for independence of the country.

Green color means the cultural wealth of Kenya.

White stripes were added in the period of independence, it symbolizes the peace.

The shield and the two spears are traditional of the country, it symbolizes the defense and the liberty. The spears can also means the leader of Kenya's independence, Jomo Kenyatta, his name means "javelin blazing of Kenya"

The name comes from its highest summit, the mount Kenya also called Kiinyaa, which means "Mountain of ostrich", it refers at the color of peaks which are white which the snow and black with the rock. It looks like the ostrich plumage.



Kenya is an african country located in the South-East of the continent. It borders Sudan, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Ouganda to the west, Tanzania to the south-west and the Indian Ocean to the east.

 

Fossils found in the East of Africa suggest that proto-humans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that the "Homo" genus of humans lived there 2.6 million years ago.The territory of Kenya was peopled by a wave of immigration came from every horizon ; from about 1000 B.C., traded with Arab merchants by the first century A.D. Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invited colonization, and Arab and Persian settlements were established along the coast by the 8th century A.D. By then, Bantu and Nilotic peoples had moved into the area. Arab dominance was eclipsed by the arrival in 1498 of the Portuguese, who gave way in turn to Islamic control under the Imam of Oman in the 1600s.





There were at this time a big segregation, Black people were bought by American. It called the Triangular Trade (17th century - early 19th century): Ships that traveled these trade routes carried African slaves, manufactured goods, and cash crops between West Africa, North America, and Europe.

Enslaved Africans were an elementary part of the economy of the American continent, as well as the islands of the Caribbean. Cash crops like tobacco, hemp, and sugar, were grown and harvested by slaves in the Americas, and then shipped to Europe. Sugar, for example, often in its liquid form called molasses, was distilled into rum in Europe. Some of the rum was taken and sold in West Africa, or traded for slaves.



The general context when Kenya became a British colony was the Wolrd War I during 1914-1918 and the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the European powers first partitioned East Africa into spheres of influence. After that, The powerful european country went in Africa to set their flag, like that others countries know that the land is already taken. In 1895 the British government formally took over the territory,

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