History of Kenya
Mrs.
Nardi's 9th Grade World History Class
Lenox Memorial High School, Lenox, Massachusetts
Questions to Consider
Second Part of "History"
1. How do lineage and land work hand in hand in the Kikuyu society?
2. Why was it questionable to refer to the early Kikuyu as an egaliarian society?
3. How is the predatory lineage system similar to our capitalist system?
4. How does an acephalous society organize its leadership?
5. How did the British undermine their own authority with regard to indirect rule?
6. What other institution helped to "westernize" the Kikuyu and other groups?
7. Give two examples as to how this process occured from the point of this text and from "The River Between".
8. What concept of the Kikuyu is undermined by the change in terms brought by the bush schools?
9. Since finishing "The River Between" and understanding the economic and social systems of the Kikuyu, what conclusions can you draw regarding the movement of British into Kikuyuland?
10. How did the building of the "Lunatic Express" necessitate the settlement of whites into the British East African Protectorate?
11. How did the encouragement of South African whites to move to the Protectorate change the "mission" of the British government ?
12. What did the first RNLO do for the British and to the Kikuyu?
13. What is the Kipande?
14. How did these two institutional regulations work together?
15. Who is Lord Delamere?
16. What was the intent of the Resident Native Labourer's Ordinance?
17. What was his view regarding the taking of land of the Kikuyu?
18. What two independent economic systems will converge to create an underclass of poverty-stricken Kikuyu as time goes by?
19. What other idenfication system can you compare the kipande to?
20. What does the term "apartheid" mean in English?