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ROLE OF THE EXPLORERS IN THE COLONIZATION OF EAST AFRICA

The explorers played a big role in the colonization of East Africa. In East Africa, the explorers were: Burton, Speke, Grant, Stanley, Livingstone, Kraft, Rebmann, Count Teleliki, Sir Samuel Baker and Thompson among others.

The following are roles played by explorers in the colonization of East Africa:

The explorers discovered navigable rivers and lakes and passed this information to their

home governments. 
  • They discovered East African economic potentials and passed the information home.
  • The explorers reported about the inhuman slave trade and this forced their home governments to come to East Africa to stop it. 
  • They formed exploration societies, for example the Royal Geographical Society, which later extended colonial interest to different parts of East Africa.
  • Henry Morton Stanley, an explorer convinced Mutesa I of Buganda to allow missionaries to come to Buganda yet missionaries were agents of colonialism. 
  • Missionaries held meetings in Europe and encouraged their home government to come and take control of East Africa. 
  • Some explorers signed treaties with East African leaders, hence colonialism. 
  • They also exposed the hospitality of some communalities, for example the Baganda from whom the colonialists started work. 
  • Explorers like John Edhart drew the map of East African showing the lake systems. This was later used by the colonialists to carry out the partition of East Africa. 
  • They discovered the source of River Nile which was of great importance to the colonialists. 
  • They reported hostile kings like Kabalega of Bunyoro kingdom and Mwanga of Buganda kingdom. 
  • They also revealed hostile tribes to their home governments, for example the Masai, Nandi, and Karamojong among others. 
  • Some explorers built military bases or Forts, for example Sir Samuel Baker built a fort at Patiko which was later used by the colonial army and administrators as their Headquarters.
  • Others worked as administrators, for example Sir Samuel Baker became the governor of
    • Equatorial province.  

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