Kenya’s rulers and some elite commentators frame the ongoing occupation of indigenous lands grabbed by colonialists in Laikipia as a criminal invasion of private property by lawless bands of tribal herders. Really? Those white ranches - in land-hungry Kenya, half-a-century into “independence” - are nothing more than ample proof of neocolonialism. The dispossessed indigenous people must take back their land. By any means necessary.
Tagged under Land & Environment Laikipia invasions, Indigenous people Kenya, Samburu Kenya, Maasai treaty, Director of Criminal Investigations Ndegwa Muhoro, Tristan Voorspuy, Mzungu, Kenya Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Sengwer