The colony came to an end in 1963 when a native Kenyan majority government was elected for the first time and eventually declared independence.

Du Bois wrote in an article which would be incorporated into the pivotal Harlem Renaissance text The New Negro,[10][11] Here was a land largely untainted by the fevers of the tropics and here England proposed to send her sick and impoverished soldiers of the war.

Following the lead of South Africa, Britain took usurped five million acres of the best lands from the 3,000,000 native inhabitants, herded them towards the swamps giving them nothing as compensation, even there, no sure title; then by taxation the British forced sixty percent of the black adults into slavery for the ten thousand white owners for the lowest wage.

Suddenly a great race conflict swept East Africa—orient and occident, white, brown and black, landlord, trader and landless serf.

Immediately the Indians made a bid for the support of this new force and asked rights and privileges for all British subjects—white, brown and black.

The British Government speculated and procrastinated and then announced its decision: East Africa was primarily a "trusteeship" for the Africans and not for the Indians.

The Empire could never keep its colored races within it by force, he said, but only by preserving and safeguarding their sentiments.The population in 1921 was estimated at 2,376,000, of whom 9,651 were Europeans, 22,822 Indians and 10,102 Arabs.

[14][15] Caroline Elkins's 2005 book, Britain's Gulag, uncovered that the UK ran concentration camps and "enclosed villages" in Kenya during the 1950s, where nearly the entire Kikuyu population was confined.

The British government systematically destroyed almost all records of these crimes, burning them or dumping them at sea in weighted crates, and replaced them with fake files.

The full Executive Council retained certain prerogatives, including approving death sentences and reviewing draft legislation.

Throughout the postcolonial period, Kenya transitioned to a republic that consisted of two legislative chambers that was outlined in their Constitution created in the mid-1960s.

Prisons were eschewed by most judges, due to the belief that it would erode the morality of convicts and consign them to a positive feedback loop of criminality.