Friday, January 4, 2008

Our Beloved Land

Does anyone have any useful statistics on the largest land owners (Read families) in Kenya? Please share the top 20.

Based on the above statistics (assumption), you will indeed find that the average Kikuyus in general own very little of Central province. I could be wrong but I am not wrong.Further to the above, all Kenyans combined probably own a mere fraction of "that piece of land known as Kenya". In comparison, a few 100 (or much less) families own expansive tracts of land, including an Etonian in Kamiti, some silver-spoons in KANU.... endless list.

So, I ask most naively, what is it that we are fighting for? We lost the land in 1963; we have brave landless Mau Mau fighters (mostly Kikuyu) to prove this.

We have now lost our right to democracy and a just state. The next phase, at the expense of leaning towards prophecy, is probably a complete loss of control of the economy through privatization; we know the big fish will be eaten soon.

We will possibly wake up to reality when we are left with nothing to loose. At this point I actually feel proud that the Llemi triangle is part of Kenya. At least I can migrate there, in the meantime, before they find some oil in that region, then they can come rig there as well --- an oil rig in this case.

We are not loosing our innocence, we are loosing our identity.

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