First African officers are commissioned into the KAR in Kenya
Citations (2)
- Military decolonisation and Africanisation: the first African officers in the Kenyan Army, 1957-1964 whole source
Cullen gives the 15 July 1961 commissioning date and Africanisation analysis; MOD profiles Ndolo and Mulinge as KAR-trained leaders.
- History and Evolution of the Ministry of Defence whole source
Cullen gives the 15 July 1961 commissioning date and Africanisation analysis; MOD profiles Ndolo and Mulinge as KAR-trained leaders.
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Consequences
what this set in motion, following the causal links
- preceded Independent Kenya keeps army, police and prisons in one security ministry 1963 The officer corps was being built while the independence state was being assembled.
- preceded Lanet mutiny forces Kenyatta to call British troops back 1964 The new state immediately faced the fragility of its inherited forces.
- triggered Penfold keeps British command above the new Kenyan army 1966 The mutiny hardened Kenyatta reliance on British officers and military support.
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Linked events (2)
- this preceded Independent Kenya keeps army, police and prisons in one security ministry
- King's African Rifles becomes Kenya's army inheritance preceded this