A history of the Mombasa African advisory council, 1945 - 1963
Abstract
This study is concerned with African interests and
problems in colonial Kenya. The main focus is on the Mombasa
African Advisory Council (MAACO), a body set up in 1945 to
represent African interests on the Mombasa Municipal Board.
The dissertation attempts to investigate the activities of
MAACO and to assess the extent to which this body succeeded
in solving the residential problems Africans were facing in
Mombasa during the colonial period.
The dissertation is divided into five chapters.
Chapter One introduces the reader to the geographical location
of Mombasa and gives a general background to the town's historical
development.
Chapter two contains the historical background to the
evolution of local government in colonial Kenya. It examines
the factors that led to the establishment of local government
bodies like the Local Native Councils in 1924 and the municipal
Governments in urban areas after 1928. It also considers
the factors that led to the establishment of a municipal
government in Mombasa . and the biased nature of representation
on this government. It gives a short review of the problems
Africans were facing and why they were not represented on
municipal institutions until 1945.