"Colour" is already the dominant question at Nairobi. "We mean to make East Africa a white man\'s country," cries, in strident tones, the Colonists\' Association on every occasion. Truly a respectable and impressive policy; but one which seems, at first sight, rather difficult to achieve in a land where there are, so far, fewer than two thousand five hundred whites and more than four million black aboriginals. Can East Africa ever become a white man\'s country? Can even the Highlands, with their cool and buoyant breezes and temperate, unchanging climate, become a white man\'s country? Never, certainly, in the sense that Canada, or, indeed, the United Kingdom, are white men\'s countries—that is to say, countries inhabited wholly by white people and subsisting upon an economic basis of white unskilled labour. 46