Erskine was invited to Kenya by a businessman with connections to Lord Delamere, and he soon set up a successful grocer business.
He contributed significant funds to the Association, including donating the land on which the Nyayo National Stadium is now built.
He was again a Member of the Legislative Council between 1961 and 1963 and was the Chief Whip of the Kenya African National Union Parliamentary Group between 1961 and 1964.
In response to the views of many European settlers who wanted self-rule from Britain and continued European dominance over Africans and Asians, he described the view as puerile poppycock, being both impracticable and unworkable, contravening Christian ethics, British ideas of liberty and fair play and international agreements such as the Atlantic Charter.
[4] In 1952, he was removed from a session of the Legislative Council due to his outspoken views demanding racial equality within Kenya.