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Partner NEWS Vol. 7 no. 3 / 2004
Land ownership, acces and use| :: | Editorial |
| Land lies at the heart of Poverty in Kenya | |
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| :: | The white man’s country |
| Like many stories of modern Kenya, the story of modern land ownership begins with the railway. It is a story of the heydays of the settler, the effect they had for better or worse… | |
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| :: | The Maasai land dispossessions |
| According to an old Maasai saying “there are only two things that cannot be given away, a son and land”. | |
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| :: | Reclaiming ancestral land |
| In 1904 the first Anglo-Maasai agreement on land was signed between the British and the Maasais, as sovereign nations. A hundred years later, the Maasais claim that the leases have expired and that their ancestral land should fall back to them. | |
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| :: | Forestry - a plea for the shamba system |
| Kenya’s forest cover has reduced drastically since independence. However, this reduction is not caused by the much debated shamba system. | |
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| :: | Kenya - A country of episodes |
| The claim for independence was also a claim for land. Nevertheless, when Kenya got its independence the majority of the Kenyans didn’t get any land. Kenya is a country of episodes says Odenda Lumumba coordinator of Kenya Land Alliance. | |
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| :: | Talk less, engage more! |
| Minister of Land Hon. Amos Kimunya is in the eye of a hurricane. However, Hon. Kimunya still keeps his spirit high and promises a new National Land Policy by mid 2005 and asks the civil society to talk less and engage more in policy formulation. | |
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| :: | The 10-Mile land dispute |
| A long-standing dispute over ownership of Kenya’s Ten-Mile Costal Strip, stretching from Vanga near the Tanzanian border to the furthest Island of Faza near Somalia, has forced locals to live as squatters on their own land. | |
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| :: | The coast squatters – a political time bomb |
| The costal region is the hot bed of the nation wide squatter problem. The land crisis in the Coast province is a political time bomb. | |
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| :: | The Slum |
| If the government does not step in to improve the situation by providing decent housing to peoplen we will witness an escalation of rent revolts in the slum areas. | |
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| :: | VIP interview - I won’t lean back” |
| Hassan Shano is known as an outspoken pastoralist, who challenges authorities and speaks his case in national and international media. | |
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| :: | Cultural Corner - Advocating for the poor |
| The South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is dreaming about a better world. His dream is carried by confidence in other people and the belief that it matters to side with the weak. | |
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