If I recall my primary school history. Dr David Livingstone was a famous explorer and missionary. He traveled in southern Africa from 1841 onward before he came to East Africa. He saw how Africans were captured and sold as slaves. As his missionary calling. He wrote letters about how badly they were treated, and sent the letters to England.
Many people in Britain were shocked. So Dr Livingstone’s letters helped to make people keen to stop the slave trade in East Africa.
However, story in Kenya was different. Slave trade was not rampart because of Masai moran warriors. The unsung heroes. So, the missionaries who arrived in Kenya remarkably Dr Ludwig Krapf coined the name Kenya from Kirinyaga, had a relatively easy time. He was soon followed by two colleagues, Johannes Rebmann an Erhardt, all of whom belonged to the Church Missionary Society, based in Britain.
School education in Kenya was started by the missionaries as in the other two East African countries. By 1900 there were several Protestant and Catholic societies engaged in the activities of educating natives among Johnstone Kamau-Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Dedan Kimanthi, the epitomes of Mashujaa Day, Madaraka and Jamuhuri days.
In brief, I see Jesus as the foremost hero-shujaa, for his servants-missionaries were the ones who enlighten Africans. For colonial government provided in the settlers’ areas all kinds of social amenities which were never thought of for the African areas.