Kenya Colonial Records

German Protectorate (1885-1888)
The colonization of Kenya began with Germany instituting a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885. When the Imperial British East Africa Company arrived in 1888, war was prevented when Germany ceded its coastal holdings to Britain in 1890.

British Colonization (1888-1963)
Kenya became a free country in 1963. In 1964, Kenya became a republic and was renamed the Republic of Kenya. The official languages are English and Swahili.

To learn about colonial Kenya, you may want to read some of the following books:
 * Britain and Kenya, 1870-1930 : the economics of colonialism
 * Kenya : from chartered company to crown colony, thirty years of exploration and administration in British East Africa by C.W. Hobley
 * The making of mission communities in East Africa : Anglicans and Africans in colonial Kenya, 1875-1935 by Robert W. Strayer
 * Origins of European settlement in Kenya by M.P.K. Sorrenson.
 * Politics of decolonization : Kenya Europeans and the land issue, 1960-1965 by Gary Wasserman