Mianga

Mianga is a settlement in Kenya's Bungoma County.

Mianga
Mianga Location of Mianga
Coordinates: 0.56°N 34.4°E / 0.56; 34.4
Country	Kenya
County	Bungoma County
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)

The last two decades of British colonial rule saw the introduction of systematic settlement schemes in the colonies.

These schemes were supposed to solve diverse problems in the respective colonies in which they were introduced. In countries where they were introduced they were intended to ease population pressure, solve the problem of managing dispersed population and bring about socio-economic change through the surplus production of food crops for home consumption and raw materials for metropolitan industries.

In Kenya, settlement schemes had an additional role, i.e, to remove political and economic anomalies. Colonial rule had created a racial society and a dual economy which developed as a result of the white highlands being given more developmental emphasis at the expense of the African land reserves. At another level the schemes were meant to raise agricultural productivity and to earn the country some foreign exchange.