State the significance of strategic considerations as a cause for scramble for East Africa

      

State the significance of strategic considerations as a cause for scramble for East Africa.

  

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John
1. To protect European workers from African competition

2. The need to open up the landlocked Uganda to the sea/ocean prompted Britain to colonise Kenya

3. The British desire to fully control the source of River Nile which provided water for Suez Canal thus providing a shorter route
to Far East where her economic interests lay.

johnmulu answered the question on February 13, 2017 at 10:59


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