Land

SQUATTERS ON THEIR OWN LAND: Why calls for secession are likely to intensify in the coast region

By Rasna Warah

Recent calls for secession by politicians from Kenya’s coast region point to deep-seated grievances that go back at least one hundred years. Many of these grievances...

Race, Land and Memory in Zimbabwe

By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

I was twelve years old when the first invasions of white-owned farms by Zimbabwe’s war veterans were announced on television. The year was 2000. What followed,...

LAND REFORM: Could the Scottish Model Work in Kenya’s Northern Rangelands?

By Emma Redfern

Listen to audio or download Sometimes when I see an acacia tree, if the location is just right, I am transported back to my first home. For...

CARROT AND STICK: How the British Defused Land Tensions in Kenya

By Michael Holman

London, UK EIGHT MILLION ACRES OF THE COUNTRY’S BEST LAND It was a potentially explosive situation. A few hundred white farmers held over eight million acres...