Editing History of Kenya (section)

====Kenya African Union====
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As a reaction to their exclusion from political representation, the [[Kikuyu people]], the most subject to pressure by the settlers, founded in 1921 Kenya's first African political protest movement, the [[Young Kikuyu Association]], led by [[Harry Thuku]]. After the Young Kikuyu Association was banned by the government, it was replaced by the [[Kikuyu Central Association]] in 1924.

In 1944 Thuku founded and was the first chairman of the multi-tribal Kenya African Study Union (KASU), which in 1946 became the Kenya African Union (KAU). 
It was an [[African nationalist]] organization that demanded access to white-owned land. KAU acted as a constituency association for the first black member of Kenya's legislative council, [[Eliud Mathu]], who had been nominated in 1944 by the governor after consulting élite African opinion. 
The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. However, the leadership of KAU was multitribal. [[Wycliff Awori]] was the first vice president followed by [[Tom Mbotela]]. In 1947 [[Jomo Kenyatta]], former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became president of the more aggressive KAU to demand a greater political voice for Africans. In an effort to gain nationwide support of KAU, Jomo Kenyatta visited [[Kisumu]] in 1952. His effort to build up support for KAU in Nyanza inspired [[Oginga Odinga]], the ''Ker'' (chief) of the Luo Union (an organisation that represented members of the Luo community in East Africa) to join KAU and delve into politics.<ref name=Kyle/>

In response to the rising pressures, the British Colonial Office broadened the membership of the Legislative Council and increased its role. By 1952 a multiracial pattern of quotas allowed for 14 European, 1 Arab, and 6 Asian elected members, together with an additional 6 Africans and 1 Arab member chosen by the governor. The council of ministers became the principal instrument of government in 1954.
In 1952, [[Queen Elizabeth II|Princess Elizabeth]] and her husband [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] were on holiday at the [[Treetops Hotel]] in Kenya when her father, [[King George VI]], died in his sleep. Elizabeth cut short her trip and returned home immediately to assume the throne. She was crowned Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in 1953 and as British hunter and conservationist [[Jim Corbett]] (who accompanied the royal couple) put it, she went up a tree in Africa a princess and came down a queen.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vickers |first=Hugo |date=29 January 2012 |title=Diamond Jubilee: the moment that Princess Elizabeth became Queen |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9046958/Diamond-Jubilee-the-moment-that-Princess-Elizabeth-became-Queen.html |url-status=live |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104201217/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9046958/Diamond-Jubilee-the-moment-that-Princess-Elizabeth-became-Queen.html |archive-date=4 January 2018}}</ref>