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African Response To Colonial Rule In Africa

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In the realm of agriculture, three main things, or perhaps more, determined the response of Africans to colonial rule in Kenya. The first was land alienation which saw may Africans lose their land to European farmers. Secondly, Africans were expected to supply free or cheap labour on European farms. Thirdly, the introduction of taxes was meant to force Africans to seek paid work on Europeans farms. The colonial government expected Africans in Kiambu to get tax money by offering their labour on coffee farms. In the colonial establishment, Africans were not passive actors who always responded in conformity to government expectations, schemes and propaganda. It is in view of this that themes of collaboration and resistance underline African response …show more content…

This, also, proved ineffective (Kenya National Archives, MA1/12/13 Kiambu District Annual Report 1922:17). An additional measure of raising taxes was resorted to. The thinking within government at the time was the hope that “by gradually bringing hut tax collection nearer to the beginning of the year, it was possible to stimulate the natives to go out to labour about the time of the coffee picking season” (Kenya National Archives, MA1/12/13 Kiambu District Annual Report1924:9). This did not yield the intended hope. As a result, European coffee farmers began to make improvements regarding the welfare of the workers through provision of higher wages, schools and recreational facilities. These improvements did not impress women of Kiambu County, as it had been hoped it would (Kenya National Archives, MA1/12/13 Kiambu District Annual Report 1925:12). Men, on the other hand, were equally not impressed with either the introduction of inter-farm sports or the building of a large meeting place where natives met after work hours as they listend to a gramophone (Kenya National Archives, MA1/12/13 Kiambu District Annual Report …show more content…

They provided a valuable opportunity for mutual understanding as well as facilitating the flow of coffee pickers to the areas most in need and for a discussion on any difficulties that arose in connection with labour. At both Ruiru and Thika the planters entertained the African members to tea. It was agreed at these meetings to raise the picking price per debe from 20 cents to 25 cents and in all probability if prices were sustained it would have been fair to raise this price again to 30 cents the following year (Kenya National Archives, MA1/12/13 Kiambu District Annual Report 1947:7). A rise in pay for laborers was, once again, too little too late. Political agitation had been rising steadily and political agitators were all over the district organizing meetings aimed at fomenting and inflaming ill feeling against government, its employees and activities. The government responded to these activities by banning such meetings and also by bannng the collection of money by agitators for such

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