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   The Nandi are a Kalenjin group of People belonging to the wider group of highland Nilotes, they currently occupy the highland escarpment in Western Kenya.  The Nandi resisted the British invasion of their territory because of a number of reasons:  They fought the British in order to defend their independence. Their leader knew very well that the British interference would erode their independence, freedom, and authority. They had even been forewarned by prophet Kimnyole that their land would at one time be ruled by foreigners. As such, they did not want any stranger crossing their land. The construction of the Uganda railway gave the Nandi an excuse of fighting the British. Their prophet Kimnyole had forewarned against the coming of an iron big snake belching smoke that would come from the East to quench its thirst in the west (Lake Victoria). So they were filled with fear and did not want to lose any of their lands to the construction of the railway Superiority complex also l

The crises of 1939-1945 was The Second World War which involved mainly Britain, France, Russia and the United States of America on the one hand and Germany, Italy and Japan on the other. T he second world war was the necessary evil in Africa because it contributed tremendously to the rise of African nationalism by doing the following; Rise of USA After the Second World War the USA emerged as the leading economic and political power. The USA introduced the open door policy through which the USA needed raw materials, markets and areas for investment from overseas hence her support for decolonization became paramount so as to access to these needs in the colonies. The USA put decolonization as the pre-condition for European economic reconstruction which was the ‘’Marshall plan’’ Rise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic After the second world war, the USSR became the leading socialist power in the world. It declared that it will support morally and materially all national