African Collaborators and Their Quest for Power in Colonial Kenya: Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung'u's Rise from Obscurity to Prominence, 1890-1922

Collaboration attracted those who hoped to benefit from the wealth, power, prestige, and influence derived from the colonizers, and thereby preserve or improve their social, political, or economic standing.2 In the early days of colonial rule, the office of chief was the highest rank that an African could attain in the civil service.