Kenya's "forgotten" engineer and colonial proconsul: Sir Percy Girouard and departmental railway construction in Africa, 1896-1912.(Biography)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Mwaruvie, John M. | Copyright information

Sir Percy Girouard remains largely unknown not only in his native Canada, but also to the travelers who daily use the railways he constructed in Sudan, Nigeria, and Kenya. In Kenya, Sir Percy Girouard is associated with the debacle of the Second Maasai Agreement of 1911, which led to their forceful removal from the fertile Laikipia plateau to semi-arid Ngong. The Maasai land alienation policy ended his spectacular career as governor of East Africa Protectorate (Kenya) in 1912. Consequently,...

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