Reasons For The Rise Of Nationalism: Land

Question 1

What happened since 1901?

Answer 1

European settlers had simply taken land they wanted from Kenyans

Question 2

When did European settlers had simply taken land they wanted from Kenyans?

Answer 2

From 1901

Question 3

What is githaka?

Answer 3

Kenyan concept of Ancestral ownership

Question 4

What was the Kenyan concept of Ancestral ownership?

Answer 4

githaka

Question 5

Why did Kenyans believe the land taken by Europeans was theirs?

Answer 5

githaka (Kenyan concept of Ancestral ownership)

Question 6

What happened in 1915?

Answer 6

Crown Land Ordinance

Question 7

When was the Crown Land Ordinance?

Answer 7

1915

Question 8

What did the 1915 Crown Land Ordinance mean?

Answer 8

Divided land up by race

Question 9

What land were given to the whites?

Answer 9

Most fertile land, ‘White Highlands’

Question 10

What happened to the White highlands

Answer 10

Given to the whites

Question 11

What type of land was given to the whites?

Answer 11

Most fertile

Question 12

What land were given to the Kikuyu?

Answer 12

Limited to their own reservations

Question 13

What happened in 1932?

Answer 13

Land Commissions, which rejected Kikuyu claims that 60,000 acres of white land be returned to Kikuyus

Question 14

When was the Land Commissions, which rejected Kikuyu claims that 60,000 acres of white land be returned to Kikuyus?

Answer 14

1932

Question 15

In the 1932, land commission, how many acres of land were rejected from being given back to the Kikuyus?

Answer 15

60,000 acres

Question 16

Before WW2, how many Kikuyu were squatters or tenants on white lands?

Answer 16

1 in 8

Question 17

When were 1 in 8 Kikuyu squatters or tenants on white lands?

Answer 17

Before WW2

Question 18

Why were Kikuyu kicked off their land by the Europeans?

Answer 18

Modernisation of white agriculture

Economic boom caused by wartime demands in the 1940s/50

Question 19

What was the impact of:
Modernisation of white agriculture
Economic boom caused by wartime demands in the 1940s/50

Answer 19

Kikuyu kicked off their land by the Europeans

Question 20

How many Kikuyu were forcibly evicted between 1946-52?

Answer 20

100,000

Question 21

Between 1946-52, what happened to 100,000 Kikuyu?

Answer 21

Forcibly evicted

Question 22

Between what years were 100,000 Kikuyu forcibly evicted?

Answer 22

1946-1952

Question 23

What exacerbated the land hunger in the Kikuyu homelands?

Answer 23

Forcible eviction

Question 24

What did conservative chiefs do rents?

Answer 24

Increased them

Question 25

Who was made unpopular through increasing rents?

Answer 25

Conservative chiefs