Kenya: Just why should so few own so much land for so long?

As we seek answers on how the dispute over the 2007 presidential results could have triggered such wanton killings, we might ask ourselves how we got trapped in a dilemma of our own making. Most of us have been happy to live as if the total disinheritance of entire communities did not matter, and to pay and receive bribes as we sought parcels of land that we did not have rights to.