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| 1903, June |
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| Lord Delamere settled in Kenya and founded the Kenya Settlers and Farmers Association. | 1 |
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| 1905–7 |
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| The Maji-Maji rebellion broke out in German East Africa. Rebellion was sparked by forced production of cotton in the Rufiji valley, as well as by issues of taxation and forced labor, but it was carried forward through the spread of the millennial message of the prophet Kinjikitili and spurred by drought. Rebellion, though brutally suppressed, forced the Germans to reappraise their white settler policy. | 2 |
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| 1907–8 |
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| Roman script was officially used for Swahili, in place of Arabic. | 3 |
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| 1914 |
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| The railroad from Dar es Salaam reached the shores of Lake Tanganyika. | 4 |
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