| A period of calm followed | " A particularly interesting example, albeit outside Kenya and featuring guns instead of spears, of successful armed resistance to maintain crucial aspects of autonomy is the of 1880—1881, whose ultimate legacy remains tangible even today, in the form of |
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| Francis Hall, an officer in the and after whom was named, asserted: "There is only one way to improve the Wakikuyu [and] that is wipe them out; I should be only too delighted to do so, but we have to depend on them for food supplies | Hardinge, in a proclamation on 1 July 1895, announced that he was taking over the as well as the interior that included the Kikuyu land, now known as Central Province |
And when unrest again appeared it was with other leaders.
19| The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army 1994 p | The investigations of the Kenya Land Commission of 1932—1934 are a case study in such lack of foresight, for the findings and recommendations of this commission, particularly those regarding the claims of the Kikuyu of Kiambu, would serve to exacerbate other grievances and nurture the seeds of a growing African nationalism in Kenya" |
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| Resistance once at an end, the leaders of the rebellion are surrendered for imprisonment |
It formally started when Her Majesty's agent and Counsel General at Zanzibar, A.
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