During WWII it became BRitish...THey built railroad and ports, Including a RR that connects the airport at Mobasa next to THE hospital. Initially it was part of the Dutch spice routes (cloves). It’s initial legal system was based on the dutch pattern after colonization and just modified when the British ruled.
Look up the history of the Kenya.
You are way off on this one. Sure, Dutch traders went through Kenya, just like Portuguese traders did, but Kenya was not colonized by Europeans until the Imperial British East Africa Company arrived in 1887; the British government itself took over in 1895 when it formed the East Africa Protectorate, and Kenya was a British colony continuously until independence in 1962. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kenya#Colonial_history Kenyan law is not based on Dutch law; Kenyan law is based on the English Common Law: http://www.usig.org/countryinfo/kenya.asp
Just because Dutch-descended Boers in South Africa used the term “Afrikan” as a racial term does not mean that the use of “African” as a racial term in Kenya is a legacy of Dutch colonialism.