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Divide and rule: using Kenyans against Kenyans
History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How existing rivalries, allied columns and separate administration kept communities from a common front.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Why Britain came, and how colonial rule was imposed
- Kenyan responses, the process, and what it teaches
- Economic motives: land, labour and the railway bill
- Strategy, Berlin and the German neighbour
- Treaties and company rule: the IBEACo
- Collaboration as a British method
- Force: the Maxim gun and punitive expeditions
- Divide and rule: using Kenyans against Kenyans
- The process: from posts to a Crown Colony
- Resistance: Nandi, Agiriama, Bukusu and others
- Collaboration as a Kenyan response
- Lessons: independence, unity and reading the paper