African Independence

During the times after World War 2, The Africans started to really pursue independence. To do this they would have to rebel against the Europeans, but the Europeans were actually thinking of how they were going to give the country back to the people. The reason why is because after World War 2, they needed money to repair the country. This made them think, how much money is used to control these colonies that we have in Africa. They started the Negritude movement. This caused a lot of revolutions because of the fact that the European rulers had treated them so harshly. This was one of the main reasons for the revolution, the other main reason was because they wanted their independence. They started by letting more African people be able to be in the government. This wasn't a big enough change, so they rebelled, also known as the Kenya and the Mau Mau rebellion. The English had seized farmland that was really important, so they decided to take it back by means of fighting. The leader of this Kenyan rebellion was a guy named Jomo Kenyatta. Mau Mau decided that in order to gain control of the high lands, they must try to scare them off because he didn't want to start an all out war that he was probably going to use.