HISTORY REFERENCE NOTES FOR BOTH ACSEE AND CSEE

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 governm

 the following are important dates and years about the Portuguese conquest in east Africa 1498 Conquest of Portuguese begun at the coast of East Africa under Vasco-Da Gama.  1499 Vasco-Da Gama returned to Portugal and informed leaders of the richness of the coast of East Africa.  1500, Pedro Alvares made an unsuccessful effort to take over Sofala.  1502, Vasco-Da Gama returned to the coast of East Africa to begin actual taking over.  In 1503, Roy Laurenco Ravasco another Portuguese came and captured Mafia, Zanzibar and Pemba Islands.  1504 Lopez Surez another person from Portugal attacked Kilwa.  1505 Francisco D’Almeida was on his way to India, before, he made a stop over at the coast of East Africa and attacked Sofala, Kilwa and Mombasa.  From 1505-1507, Triasto De Carville still from Portugal captured Lamu, Kismayo, Brava, Pate, Oja, and others.  1509, the Islands of Mafia, .Pemba and Zanzibar were brought under Portuguese control.  In 1510 almost the entire East African coast was u