The colonial history of Kenya began in 1885 as a German protectorate and as a coastel possession of the Sultan of Zanzibar. In 1888 the Imperial British East Africa Company came to Kenya and was governed as British East Africa untili 1895. In 1898 Germany turned over its coastel areas to the British. In 1895 the British government declared British East Africa a protectorate and opened the fertile highlands to the colonization of whites. In 1920 Kenya officially became a Crown Colony. Thus Kenya experienced its colonial history and was the property of the British for quite some time. Uprisings brought Kenya into a state of emergency from 1952 to 1960, but it had its first elections in 1957, from which the Kenya African National Union (KANU) created the first government. On December 12, 1963 Keny became independent. A year later Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya. 

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