The history of the United Kenya club,1946 to 1963

Abstract

The history of the United Kenya Club attempts to show that Social Institutions can effectively expose evils in a society without turning into pressure groups.The growth and expansion of the Club was largely determined by the politial environment in Kenya. For the United Kenya Club to maintain its ideals,:it had to keep on revising and changing the articles of its constitution. The Europeans failed to turn the club into a centre for co-opting, adopting and assimilating Africans into the European liberal camp. The club gradually developed into a political platform which was used by European liberals, Asian radicals and African nationalists to air their views and advocate for a multiracial society in Kenya. It became a platform for racial bargaining foi power-as Kenya evolved towards her independence.