13.What were the effects of the world war 2 in east Africa?

13.What were the effects of the world war 2 in east Africa?

Many people were killed wounded and others were permanently crippled in the military campaigns in Somalia Burma Ethiopia India etc

Those who were killed their bodies were neither returned nor any compensation given to their families

Many people were forcefully recruited into the KAR army and forced to go and fight in foreign lands like Madagascar and India where !many were killed

Trade was disrupted and exports declined for example Uganda coffee and cotton fell in prices and many people lost their business.the growers had to be helped by the government

Japan captured Malaysia with its huge rubber factories and therefore Tanganyika had to increase on its rubber production

Because all the manpower was devoted  to fighting there was a decline in food production resulting  into famine this led to the production imported foods like maize

The war sowed seed of nationalism in Kenya ex-soliders came back determined to fight Colonrule rule and therefore formed associations like mau-mau to fight for self rule

The family system was disrupted men were forced to abandon their families to go to the war front which caused misery and suffering as many of these families didn't have support

On return ex-service men created resettlement problems as many had no where to stay many of them wanted to stay in towns and have white collar jobs and on failing to get these jobs they ended up joining the militant mau-mau movement

Since the ex-soliders had acquired some skills about military organization many of them spearheaded the campaign of chasing out the foreigners.

These veterans also brought and spread venereal diseases and other sexually transmitted diseases like sypillis and gonorrhea

Educated Africans like jomo Kenyatta and Julius nyerere were inspired by the war to mobilize masses and agitate for self rule for their respective countries

Many people were imprisoned  in Tanganyika those who had tried to challenge the new British administration were arrested charged and imprisoned.

Africans realized that Europeans were not as strong as they thought. The myth that the whites were invincible was therefore destroyed since they were seen fleeing the battle field and dying at the same rate as the Africans this encouraged them to fight against the Europeans

In Kenya the kikuyu and the luo generated a lot of revenue after breaking into retail businesses owned by Asians and they used the money to support their nationalistic movements

Africans especially in Kenya were allowed to participate in trade which before was in the hands of the whites they were also involved in in cash crop growing

Peoples attitude towards African cheifs and administrors changed as their own people started to resent them

The Italians who had posed a threat to the British were defeated and forced to surrender by December 1941 the British had captured kismayo Somalia and southern Ethiopia

The British government enabled the ex-so!iders education and technical skills technical schools were also built to provide the skills

Britain was forced to decolonize east Africa because of the pressure from the newly formed united Nations organization

Many Europeans started changing their attitude towards the Africans for the better

Tanganyika became a trusteeship of the British under the UNO provision towards self government.