The white settlers owned 20 per cent of the best land in Kenya, - TopicsExpress



          

The white settlers owned 20 per cent of the best land in Kenya, the White Highlands. This meant that fewer than 30,000 whites owned more arable land than 1 million Kikuyu. The colony’s function was to produce primary products for export and because settler agricultural production depended on the availability of labour, it was essential for a large portion of the African peasantry to be deprived of their own land and forced onto the labour market.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:31:19 +0000

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