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1931 Kenyan General Election
General elections were held in Kenya Colony in 1931. Five of the eleven White people in Kenya, white seats in the Legislative Council of Kenya, Legislative Council were uncontested, with Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, Lord Delamere amongst those returned unopposed."Kenya Elections: White Settlers And Closer Union", ''The Times'', 18 April 1931, p9, Issue 45800 Unlike previous elections, which were boycotted by the Indians in Kenya, Indian population, this time the community participated. Fourteen candidates including two independents contested the five Indian seats. However, seven of them declared that they would not take their seats on the Council if elected until the separate voter rolls for whites and Indians were scrapped. Results Appointed members Aftermath The newly elected Legislative Council of Kenya, Legislative Council met for the first time on 2 June. References {{Kenyan elections 1931 elections in Africa 1931 in Kenya Elections in Keny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya Colony
The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa, was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British Crown colony in 1920. Technically, the "Colony of Kenya" referred to the interior lands, while a 16 km (10 mi) coastal strip, nominally on lease from the Sultan of Zanzibar, was the "Protectorate of Kenya", but the two were controlled as a single administrative unit. The colony came to an end in 1963 when an ethnic Kenyan majority government was elected for the first time and eventually declared independence as the Republic of Kenya. History The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was established on 23 July 1920 when the territories of the former East Africa Protectorate (except those parts of that Protectorate over which His Majesty the Sultan of Zanzibar had sovereignty) were annexed by the UK. The Kenya Protectorate was established on 29 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kirkwood (Kenyan Politician)
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1931 In Kenya
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Elections In Africa
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Ferris Watkins
Lt Col Oscar Ferris Watkins CMG CBE DSO (1877–1943) was a British colonial administrator, Commandant of the East African Carrier Corps in the First World War. After the war he was acting Kenya Chief Native Commissioner and a Provincial Commissioner, and first editor of a Swahili newspaper ''Baraza''. He was the son of Rev Oscar Dan Watkins (1848–1926), Archdeacon of Lucknow, and Elizabeth Martha née Ferris (1846–1928) and was born in Allahabad. Educated at Marlborough and a 'bible clerk', that is undergraduate scholar at All Souls College, Oxford, by virtue of being a founders' kin, in 1899 Watkins cut short his study to enlist in the ranks of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the Second Boer War; after the war joining the South African Police. In 1907 he moved to Kenya and as a junior District Commissioner in Kenya he was a magistrate in the Kenya Slave courts, freeing slaves from Arab slavers on the East African coast and developing a lasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdulla Bin Salim
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Abdul Wahid (Kenyan Politician)
ʻAbd al-Wāḥid (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الواحد) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Wāḥid'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the One". It may refer to: Political people * Shaykh Abdul Wahid, 17th-century Mughal general * Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, 17th-century Moroccan ambassador * Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad Caliph (died 1224), caliph of Morocco * Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar (1935 – 1970), Saudi political activist * Abdul Waheed Kakar (born 1937), chief of Pakistan army * Abdulwahid Bidin (1925 — 1999), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines * Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari (born 1954), Iranian politician * Abdul Wahid al Nur (born 1968), Sudanese rebel leader * Abdul Wahid Baba Jan, Afghan soldier and politician *Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut (born 1957), Malaysian politician * Abdelwahid Aboud Macka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakim Singh
Hakim may refer to: * Al-Ḥakīm (Arabic: الحكيم), one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "The All-Wise". * Hakim (name), an Arabic masculine name, including a list of people bearing this name. * Hakim (title), an Arabic name and title, used in both Arabic-speaking and Muslim countries. Other * Hakim Rifle, an Egyptian rifle * Hakim Stout, a beer made in Ethiopia by Harar Brewery * Hakim Expressway, Tehran, Iran See also * * Al-Hakam (other) * Joaquim Joaquim is the Portuguese and Catalan version of Joachim and may refer to: * Alberto Joaquim Chipande, politician * Eduardo Joaquim Mulémbwè, politician * Joaquim Agostinho (1943–1984), Portuguese professional bicycle racer * Joaquim Amat- ... and Joaquin, Portuguese and Spanish names sometimes pronounced similarly {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Scott (Kenyan Politician)
Francis Scott may refer to: * Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch (1626–1651), Scottish nobleman * Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch (1694–1751), Scottish nobleman * Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (1721–1750), Scottish nobleman * F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, constitutional expert and intellectual * Francis Scott (British politician) (1806–1884), British politician * Francis George Scott Francis George Scott (25 January 1880 – 6 November 1958) was a Scottish composer often associated with the Scottish Renaissance. Born at 6 Oliver Crescent, Hawick, Roxburghshire, he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts. Educated ... (1880–1958), Scottish composer * Francis Cunningham Scott (1834–1902), British Army officer * Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet (1824–1863), English landowner See also * Frank Scott (other) {{human name disambiguation, name=Scott, Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas O'Shea (Kenyan Politician)
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Helmuth Schwartze
Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name; * Helmuth Theodor Bossert (1889–1961), German art historian, philologist and archaeologist *Helmuth Duckadam (born 1959), Romanian former footballer *Helmuth Ehrhardt, German psychiatrist * Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942), German opponent of the Third Reich * Helmuth Koinigg (1948–1974), Austrian racing driver * Helmuth Lehner (born 1968), Austrian musician *Helmuth Lohner (1933–2015), Austrian actor and theatre director *Helmuth Markov (born 1952), German politician *Helmuth von Moltke (other), several people * Helmuth Nyborg (born 1937), Danish professor at Aarhus University *Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898–1947), German SS Cossack Cavalry Corps officer executed for war crimes *Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985), German philosopher and sociologist * Helmuth Rilling (born 1933), German conductor * Helmuth von Ruckteschell (1890–1948), German navy officer *Helmuth S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
