Title: 
Headings: Nationalism & Independence in Africa
Nationalism
 
&
 
Independence
 
in
 
Africa
 

KENYA
 

NIGERIA
 

SOUTH
 
AFRICA
 


Content: The
 
call
 
for
 
unity
 
by
 
Pan-Africanism
 
encouraged
 
nationalism
 
among
 
many
 
Africans
 
and
 
helped
 
many
 
African
 
countries
 
become
 
independent. KENYA
 
In
 
Kenya,
 
Europeans
 
had
 
been
 
exploiting
 
and
 
taking
 
advantage
 
of
 
this
 
part
 
of
 
Africa
 
for
 
almost
 
450
 
years
 
before
 
it
 
became
 
an
 
official
 
European
 
colony. By
 
1920
 
however,
 
Great
 
Britain
 
officially
 
made
 
Kenya
 
a
 
British
 
colony. Under
 
colonial
 
rule,
 
black
 
people
 
were
 
not
 
allowed
 
to
 
participate
 
in
 
government
 
until
 
1944. At
 
this
 
point
 
in
 
time,
 
there
 
were
 
few
 
black
 
people
 
who
 
were
 
allowed
 
to
 
run
 
and
 
hold
 
office. Then
 
in
 
the
 
1950s,
 
there
 
was
 
a
 
violent
 
seven
 
year
 
rebellion
 
called
 
the
 
Mau
 
Mau
 
Uprising
 
against
 
the
 
British
 
that
 
resulted
 
in
 
the
 
deaths
 
of
 
tens
 
of
 
thousands
 
of
 
black
 
Kenyans. This
 
rebellion
 
was
 
a
 
symptom,
 
or
 
consequence,
 
of
 
nationalism. Black
 
Kenyans
 
revolted
 
against
 
the
 
British
 
because
 
they
 
wanted
 
their
 
own
 
independent
 
country. They
 
were
 
tired
 
of
 
racist,
 
colonial
 
rule. The
 
want
 
for
 
an
 
independent
 
Kenya
 
lead
 
to
 
more
 
black
 
participation
 
in
 
government
 
and,
 
eventually,
 
nationalism
 
lead
 
to
 
Kenya
 
becoming
 
an
 
independent
 
nation
 
in
 
1963.