Colonization brought exploitation, land theft, cultural erasure, and violence. Across Africa, people resisted — through arms, politics, culture, and everyday refusal.
A fierce guerrilla war against British rule. Led by figures like Dedan Kimathi, fighters took oaths to reclaim their land. Britain responded with concentration camps, torture, and mass detentions — yet the rebellion forced Kenya toward independence in 1963.
This is one chapter among many continental struggles — Algeria, Zimbabwe, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa, and more each have their own archives of resistance.