Get premium membership and access revision papers with marking schemes, video lessons and live classes.

Processing. Please wait.

Explain the problems faced by Kenyan nationalists in their struggle for independence.

Answer Text:
-Hostility from the colonial government, some were arrested and deported.
-Did not have enough funds to fund their organizations due to low wages.
-There were political wrangles between the
nationalists like in Coast African Association.
-Ethnicity-most early political movements were ethnic-based.
-Many nationalists had little experience in running political parties and they therefore mismanaged their offices.
-Most people were not politically aware and so it
was difficult for the leaders to get followers.
-Leadership and membership in the early political parties were confined to the western educated elite.