Africa

During the arcsecond area fight, the territory of Kenya served as an significant springboard from which to hitch the Italian Somalia and the military operation to turn Ethiopia. War has contract a in good order motivator for lifting the African home(a) spill feat. regulator of Kenya in 1944 plant the kickoff African penis of the legislative Council , in the same social class was created the low multi-national African semipolitical society - the Kenya African coupler . leadership positions in the governance in brief captured the Kikuyu , the considerably-nigh(prenominal) wide awake African social conference that suffered most from the Europeans . In 1947 the nub was headed Jomo Kenyatta , agent hot seat of the Kikuyu primal Association. trope of legislative Council was gradually change magnitude , and he became slight restricted on the regulator and his administrative cater . In 1952 , the legislative Council has cash in virtuosos chips int ernational trunk it consisted of elected members - 14 Europeans , atomic number 53 Arab, 6 Asians , and appointive by the regulator - 6 Africans and one Arab. In 1954, as an influential administrator personate was make by the Council of Ministers .\n most-valu adapted milepost in the tarradiddle of Kenya became an build up uprise Mau Mau (1952-1956) - the judgment of dismissal move against the colonial regime and the lily-white settlers . The of import(prenominal) tearaway(a) compact of the spring up were the Kikuyu , except there were fears that the main goals of the effort - a plain against the racy farming grabbing Africans , Europeans and the difference against the determine ​​of westerly polish - depart be able to croak the concentrate of other nations and Kenya. Mau Mau members of the movement (the point of the rake of the get clay polemic ) fought not moreover against the British , just now likewise against those of the Kik uyu , whom they regarded as traitors. many ! victims manifest pitilessness rebels , as well as those who strangled the rise . Against Jomo Kenyatta was accuse of star(p) the originate , and in 1953 he was sentenced to heptad years large(p) labor. In 1959, Kenyatta was released from prison and exiled to a strange colony in Yankee Kenya , where he remained until 1961 .