By PAUL MAINA MWANGI
Land lost through past injustices should be restored, the tenure system reformed to provide security for ownership as well as use for the disadvantaged”
Two important events in the past few weeks have re-ignited debate on land justice from the embers of this year’s election.
First was the release of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Committee report, and then last week’s acknowledgment by the British Government of torture and ill-treatment of Mau Mau freedom fighters.
The British colonial and protectorate administrations failed to recognise customary land tenure systems. By 1914, nearly two million hectares had been taken away from Africans. By 1960, European settlers occupied some three million hectares. Continue reading Kenyans seeking land justice, 50 years later