Kenya Land Policy In Kenya

In order to effectively rule the new colonizes that Britain seized, they issued policies to establish control. The British issued certain land policies, which affected the lives of the Kenyan people economically. For example, the “White highlands ' policy restricted the ownership of the best farming land to Europeans. The Kikuyu suffered economic losses, due to the lost of agricultural land occupied by the British. Kikuyu is the largest tribe in Kenya, and relied heavily on agriculture for their economy. The Kikuyu’s agriculture is known to be perhaps the best farming in Africa. The British exploited the Kikuyu people by taking their land, despite knowing how much the Kikuyu people relied on agriculture. The land policies that the British imposed on the Kenyans can clearly be depicted in the economic impacts they had on the Kikuyu people.

This did not go over well with the people of Kikuyu because the effects were disastrous and disrupted the whole colony. Kenyan Africans resentment over the lost of their land sparked numerous riots and revolts against the British government. In 1934 the Carter Land Commission recommended important extensions to land already held in the reserves. Certain towns produced uprooted and unskilled Africans, which effected their economic production. By having unskilled workers it put a strain on business and production. The British managed to undermine the existing economic power and made Kenyan Africans reliant upon Britain. The people in Kikuyu had no control on what crops they should grow; the British now had the power of that decision. The British only produced agricultural products that would produce revenue for them. What the Kikuyu people relied upon the most was now taken away from them; the British now owned their