An Economic History of Kenya.

OKOTH ROBERT
X74/3706/2012
Summary of An Economic History of Kenya.
CHAPTER 1: Land, Natural and benevolent Resources
Kenya can be subdivided into four broad physical geographical regions: the Coastal Plain, the desiccated Low Plateaus, the Kenya Highlands and the Lake Victoria Basin, due to huge differences in its physical landscape. Consequently, each of these regions has different economic potentialities.
With the censure of the Arid Low Plateaus, husbandry is primarily practiced in whole the geographical regions. Pastoralism is primarily practiced in the Arid Low Plateaus due to environmental factors, though livestock holding is also practiced in the other regions. For example, the Kenya Highlands are characterized by extensive ranches. Other economic activities vary, respective of the physical setting, and they entangle tourism, fishing, mining, irrigation and energy production. It is, however, notable that these regions have not panopticy exploit their economic potentials. For example, untapped oil deposits in Turkana.
The realization of all the mentioned potentialities depends on the human resource of the country. By nineteenth century, Kenya had ternion major language groups: Bantu (mainly agriculturalists), Nilotes (pastoralists, fishermen and sedentary agriculturalists) and Cushites (mainly pastoralists).



All the lead groups have their origins outside Kenya; they migrated to their present settlements due to varied, and closely associated with environmental and cultural, factors. There were also immigrants from Asia (Arabs, Persians, Chinese, etc) and Europeans.
The earliest known inhabitants of Kenya lived by search and gathering as their main source of food, which continued into the 19th century, but by then it was to supplement vegetable diet. During this period, agriculture had become widespread as new crops were introduced and farming techniques much(prenominal) as shifting cultivation, improved. Therefore, more land was put chthonic cultivation. Livestock keeping also...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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