Out of Africa | Historical Context

British East Africa
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, European countries, especially Britain and Germany, began to colonize an area of British East Africa that is now called Kenya. The Europeans realized that the sparsely populated land promised political and economic opportunities.

In 1887 the Impenal British East Africa Company, a trading organization under government control, rented the land from the sultan of Zanzibar, who ruled over the area. By 1895 the influence of the British government in East...

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