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Reasons why the armed resistance failed in Kenya are;Kenyan societies were organized in small autonomous groups making it hard to fight the enemyDisunity of communities who kept fighting one another.Inferior weapons while British had sophisticated weapons like gunsAfrican warriors were not well trainedEpidemics and natural calamities reduced the populationPoor leadershipThe death of their leaders demoralized themSome Africans collaborated with British against fellow Africans
Reasons Kenyan communities fought against each other during the precolonial period because of;Competition for land for cultivation and settlementCompetition for water or pastureTo demonstrate their military powerTo raid for cattle
Frelimo succeeded in armed struggle against the Portuguese because;Frelimo had a large number of fightersFRELIMO used guerilla tacticsLocal people gave logistical support of where about of Portuguese armyMovement cultivated its own foodFrelimo got military support from African countriesRole of O.A.U (organization of African Unity) united the independent African countries against Portuguese.Women mobilized the masses that astonished men to join war.Frelimo tactic of attacking Portuguese at different points at the same time thus Portuguese fighting in different fronts.Lisbon coup that was caused by officers who were anti-government encouraged the FRELIMO.Ethnicity was overcome by free mingling of people.
French system of assimilation fail because;The Africans were not willing to become Christians.The African were not able to get the French type of education.The system faced oppositions from Muslims.The French parliamentarians did not want to compete with African for cabinets posts.The African traditional rulers feared the system .It was expensive to implement due to the vastness of the French empire.The varied African cultures made it difficult for them to be absorbed into the French culture.
Assimilation policy failed in Senegal because;The policy was expensive, especially the costs of privileges it provided such as education.There was problems of cultural differences between Africans and the FrenchAfrican chiefs who had lost their authority over their subjects strongly opposed policy of assimilation.French lacked adequate personnel to supervise the processFrench feared that its application would result to the loss of labour on their farmsPolitically the system threatened their status quo: French feared if Africans were elected to join French chambers of deputies they would outnumber the Frenchmen.Disregard of African laws based on African culture & Islam caused a lot of African resentmentHigh standards expected by the French for one to be assimilated made the policy unworkable.Fear by some Frenchmen that assimilated Africans could be their economic rivals.French were unable to agree to destroy the French colonial empire, they began to agitate for abolition of the policy.The rise of African nationalism undermined the policy.