MICNG Sessional Paper No 8 of 2013 on National Values and Principles of Governance

Before the establishment of the East Africa Protectorate, present day Kenya was a conglomeration of over forty different ethnic groups with distinct cultural value systems, and no semblance of statehood. The encroachment of European settlement in the late 1800s and subsequent colonization led to the development of a state that acted as a tribute-taker and…