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The Evolution of “Trusteeship” in Kenya

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  • Perham , M. 1960 . Lugard. The Years of Authority 1890–1945 Vol. III (London, p. 416
  • Hyam , R. 1968 . Elgin and Churchill at the Colonial Office 380 London
  • 1919 . The Treaty of Versailles. Part I. The Covenant of the League of Nations
  • Lugard , F. 1965 . The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa 50 (5th Edit. London.
  • Ibid. Introduction by Margery Perham, p. xxix
  • Ibid., p. 58
  • 1960 . Parliamentary Papers, Cmnd. 1030. p. 224
  • 1930 . See Sir Samuel. Sir Edward Grigg, 18.2., quoted in Perham, Lugard … p. 691. “There is a very live and very critical body of opinion in the country … interested in the native policy of Kenya administration.”
  • Huxley , E. and Perham , M. 1944 . Race and Politics in Kenya 184 London (p. Lugard also noted that when the German Colonial ministers visited Africa they expressed more enlightened views than the settlers or local government
  • 1929 . In his Rhodes Memorial lectures, Nov.
  • Perham , Huxley and . op. cit. 29
  • Ibid. Intro., pp. 12–13
  • Ibid
  • 1931 . Parl. Papers, H.C. 156, pp. 219–220. As Sir Donald Cameron testified before the Joint Select Committee of 1931, “it is well known and admitted that for some years Kenya has been governed outside the constitution”
  • 1904 . Vide Eliot's despatch to Secretary of State for the Colonies, dd. April 9, in Cd. 2099. “There can be no doubt that the Masai and many other tribes must go under.” On the other hand several of his officials believed that African interests were the first call on the administration
  • Eliot , C. 1905 . The East Africa Protectorate (London, p. 103
  • Bennett , G. , Harlow , V. and Chilver , E. M. , eds. 1965 . Quoted by (eds.) History of East Africa, Vol. II (Oxford, p. 274
  • Sorrenson , M. P. K. 1934 . Report of the Kenya Land Commission 234 Parl. Papers, Cmd. 4556. The boundaries of the Highlands were not defined until 1939, as the government accepted the settler view that land suitable for white settlement should be added to them. (Origins of European Settlement in Kenya (Oxford, 1968) p.)
  • Wrigley , C. C. “Kenya: The Patterns of Economic Life 1902–1945” in History of East Africa, Vol. II
  • 1960 . Parl. Papers. Cmnd. 1030. Historical Survey of the Origins and Growth of Mau Mau, p. 15
  • For Kikuyu land tenure and European interpretation see Sorrenson History of East Africa, Chapter XI
  • Sorrenson . 1966 . Origins of European Settlement 24 See also G. H. Mungeam, British Rule in Kenya 1895–1912 (Oxford
  • 1908 . Parl. Paper, Cd. 4117, quoted in History of East Africa, Vol. II. p. 278
  • Sorrenson . Vide Origins of European Settlement, p. 244
  • 1923 . Parl. Papers Cmd. 1922. Indians in Kenya
  • Both as labourers and as pupils in mission schools
  • For the background to Kikuyu dissatisfaction see Sorrenson, History of East Africa, Chapter XI
  • Lonsdale , J. M. 1968 . “Some Origins of Nationalism in East Africa.” Journal of African History, IX, 1
  • Hancock , W. K. 1937 . Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs 1918–1939 His “solution” balanced territorial, segregation and continued exclusion from the Highlands, against unrestrained immigration, and communal representation on the Legislative Council. For the Indian government reply see, Vol. I (Oxford
  • Perham , Huxley and . op. cit. 152
  • Ainsworth, for example, who had held various posts including the Chief Native Commissionership in the Protectorate;and the African Society also exerted pressure
  • 1925 . Parl. Papers. Cmd. 2387
  • Ibid., p. 23
  • Perham , Huxley and . Ibid., p. 322 ff. Also op. cit., p. 11. He regarded this as the only way to give the settlers representative rights on British lines, and train Africans for self-government, without conflict
  • 1927 . Parl. Papers, Cmd. 2904
  • 1929 . Delamere, for instance, in a letter to the Cape Times, 22.4., denied that trusteeship meant “that their (i.e. the Africans) interests should be paramount over those of other inhabitants of East Africa”
  • Perham , P. 1960 . Lugard. The Years of Authority 1898–1945 London
  • 1929 . Parl. Papers Cmd. 3234. Report of the Commission on Closer Union of the Dependencies in Eastern and Central Africa. The chairman, Sir E. Hilton Young differed from the majority of the Commission on several important issues
  • Ibid., pp. 60–61
  • 1929 . Parl. Papers Cmd. 3378. Report of Sir Samuel Wilson on his Visit to East Africa, p. 6 ff. Wilson was sent investigate whether an administratively workable scheme for Closer Union could be formulated. The settlers reiterated their demands for political safeguards if economic co-operation was to be implemented
  • 1929 . Cape Times, 22.4
  • It sought to declare a trust over Reserve lands, administrated by the governor advised by a Board including unofficial (i.e. European) members
  • Bennett , G. in History of East Africa, Vol. II
  • Robinson , K. 1965 . The Dilemmas of Trusteeship 56 London
  • Oldham , J. H. 1930 . Pad. Papers, Cmd. 3573. The Labour Party was strongly influenced by, Secretary of the International Missionary Council
  • 1930 . Parl. Papers, Cmd. 3574. Passfield was Secretary of State for Colonies and Dominions
  • 1930 . Parl. Papers Cmd. 3573, p. 4
  • 1930 . Parl. Papers Cmd. 3574, p. 7
  • 1930 . Cable quoted in Cape Times, 24.6. The settlers were much heartened by the open support they received from Genl. Hertzog, South African Prime Minister
  • 1931 . Parl. Papers H.L. 184. Report of the Joint Select Committee on Closer Union in East Africa
  • Ibid., p. 31
  • Bennett . in History of East Africa, Vol. II p. 316. See H.L. 184 pp. 28–32 passim
  • Hailey , W. M. 1957 . An African Survey. Revised 1956 192 Oxford
  • Hancock . op. cit. 233
  • Perham . Lugard Vol. II. p. 689
  • 1931 . Colonial No. 57 (Papers relating to the Question of the Closer Union of Kenya, Uganda and the Tanganyika Territory, p. 15 ff
  • Hailey . op. cit. 192
  • 1932 . Parl. Papers. Cmd. 4093
  • 1934 . Known as the Carter Commission, its reports was tabled as Cmd. 4556 in Parl. Papers
  • 1955 . Ibid., p. 2. See Parl. Papers, Cmd. 9475 p. 59. The Secretary of State's verbal definition of this term “privileged position” “postulated the exclusion of Africans as such from the area to be demarcated as the Highlands”
  • Such as the 1938 Native Lands Trust Ordinance;1938 Crown Lands (Amendment) Ordinance;1939 Kenya (Native Areas) Order in Council. See Rosberg C. and Nottingham J. The Mynth of Mail Mau Nationalism in Kenya (Stanford 1964)
  • Hancock . 1940 . Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs 1918–1939 1 Vol. II, Part II (Oxford
  • Oldham , J. H. 1930 . White and Black in Africa. A critical Examination of the Rhodes Lectures of General Smuts London
  • 1955 . See Parl. Papers, Cmd. 9475, which commented on the “pathological obsession” with the idea that all advantages were the result of racial distinctions
  • Op, cit., p. 135
  • Bennett . op. cit. 53
  • 1955 . Parl. Papers Cmd. 9475. Appendix IV, p. 457. Weight of numbers made anything else impossible. The 1948 census figures gave Kenya a European population of 29 660;Indians 90 528;Africans 5 251 120
  • Hancock , W. K. 1950 . Wealth of Colonies 45 Cambridge
  • 1950 . Parl. Papers, Cmd. 7987. The British Territories in East and Central Africa 1945–1950, p. 8
  • Op. cit., p. 195
  • 1937 . Col. No. 142. (Higher Education in Africa, p. 7

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