For hundreds of years, outsiders did not enter the region now known as Kenya because of the fierce warrior tribes that inhabited the area. Arab traders took control of Kenya's coast during the 1800s. Next came Germany and Great Britain, but by the 1900s, the British were the only foreigners who remained.
This could possibly be because the more advanced countries are more advanced in technology and have vehicles, and those vehicles produce CO2. And because of the greenhouse gas effect the more CO2 that is produced the warmer the earth will be.