Colonial Vision for Rural Kenya? Case of Community Development Training at the Jeanes School, Kabete, 1945-1961

Abstract

The Establishment of Jeanes School at Kabete was from the onset a government venture to train men and women whose task was advance the colonial government hegemonic control of the population. This was done mainly through community development programs and activities both in the urban and rual areas. During the pre-Second World War period, the school trained school supervisors and their wives who in different capacities made their schools and homes radiating centers of change and progress. Later the chiefs and sub-chiefs and their wives having underwent short courses training at the school led the way in the rural in propagating government agenda. The Second World war period transformed the school into military training center for the purpose of advancing government’s control policies. It was the period after the war the School systematically embarked of crash programs to train men and women to spearhead development in their respective communities as well as become agents keeping law and order in the colony