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23. Ibid., 85. Yet this process was far from smooth in Kenya. Many difficulties were encountered in attempts to “develop a responsible Cabinet in a multi-racial society.” H. V. Wiseman, “From Executive Council to Responsible Cabinet in Multi-Racial Societies.” Parliamentary Affairs 11 (1957–1958): 66.

24. Henry S. Wilson, African Decolonization (New York: Edward Arnold, 1994), 1–3; and Wunyabari Maloba, “Nationalism and Decolonization, 1947–1963,” in A Modern History of Kenya 1895–1980, ed. W. R. Ochieng’ (London: Evans Brothers, 1989), 173–174. As Maloba argued, decolonization was a process involving political, social, and economic phenomena and changes, but the focus of this study is primarily political, given the emphasis on constitution making. Maloba, “Decolonization,” 11.

25. Maloba, “Nationalism and Decolonization,” 185–191.

26. Hilda Nissimi maintained that “the more demonic the Mau Mau were made out to be, the more convinced the British were that Kenya’s stable future depended on European leadership and guidance.” Nissimi, “Mau Mau and the Decolonization of Kenya,” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 8 (2006): 6–7.

27. Sorobrea N. Bogonko, Kenya 1945–1963: A Study in African National Movements (Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1980), 97–98; Daniel Branch, Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 149.

28. Rothchild, “Changing Racial Stratification,” 422; Gary Wasserman, Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).