Land is the original grievance of Kenyan politics and the one that has never been resolved. The colonial government seized the most fertile highlands for white settlers, displacing Kikuyu, Maasai, and Nandi communities from land their ancestors had occupied for centuries. Independence promised redistribution but delivered a new elite buying back stolen land with borrowed money. From the White Highlands to the million-acre schemes, from squatter settlements to the 2010 Constitution's land commission, this trail follows the question that sits beneath every election, every ethnic clash, and every protest march in Kenya's history.
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