I'm born and bred in Samburu, a peace champion and a youth leader and a pastrolist son. Like any other society, there are elements in Tiaty West pokot who are being financed to cause mayhem and steal cows while maiming, killing and displacing people. They have caused untold suffering. The Pokot leadership needs to educate their people on the need to abandon cattle rustling and banditry, killings and maimings. This is a retrogressive culture that is leading to underdevelopment, retardation of economic growth, lack of access to schooling, and loss of lives and it's giving a bad name to the Pokot community. The deaths in the Samburu west,my ancestral home in Samburu county are heart-wrenching. The killings of school children is spiteful. We have lost over 8o people in a year, my people have been squatters and land gone taken by Bandits who have reign supreme in Amaiya belt. So sad, the government have been quite. Samburu lives matter and justice for samburu.
It is heartbreaking to see an icon like Kuki being that sick, watching her dream breaking into pieces. I hope Sveva will be able to hold on ❤️ Hugs and kisses from Italy 🇮🇹
I’ve just now heard of this woman. I’m currently watching the movie. She’s had an extraordinary life it seems. I’m in the USA. I’d heard of the movie but hadn’t watched it and never knew it was based on a true story. I wish I knew where to send a letter to them. God bless them and the good people of that region.
In 2004 when my brother was dying I've started sending her emails and she ALWAYS replied to me! I am Italian and visited Kenya for volunteer reasons many times and drove through the Rift Valley but never visited Laikipia despite her invite to meet her at the ranch around 2008! I wish I had the time to meet her back then! It's so sad to see Kuki so frail and fragile! It breaks my heart!
I am reading her book at the moment. I was born in Kampala, Uganda. We lived in Jinja for a while and in 1954 we moved to Tanga on the coast of Tanganyika now Tanzania. I spent my school days at a boys boarding school in the Usambara Mts, at the infamous 'Soni Prison Camp'!! We finally flew back to the UK in 1962, after independence. Another good book, recently published is 'Zamani' by Jane Bryce. Life in Africa similar to mine.
i am from kenya currently living in nairobi my honest opinion is an honest opinion is an honest dialogue between kukis and the pokot ...a possible remedy is an arrangement where the cows are allowed to grace in cetain sections at a fee during dry seasons and the conservation goes on, land is becoming scare all over recently the presidents land uhuru was invaded almost for the same reasons nad this act is to come up with a solution that is long lasting solution ...the best solution wd be to sell partly
Am a Kenyan Living in Leuven, Belgium but have never known about Gallman's Land,,, wow I feel sad for her, The issue with the cattle rustling by the Pokot is not isolated to her alone, because of her skin colour , (which is really sad actually)they also raid other communities like the tugens, in Baringo county, My take is Kuki's daughter should engage the Pokot community elders, in a honest and multi-sectoral dialogue, to avoid conflict as they see her as an enemy and threat although the land legally belongs to her , protected by the state it's clear as well that she is being sabotaged by some leaders in government who arm the Pokot bandits. They should take part in capacity-building initiatives, help the community set up water points for their cattle, and community empowerment for the women in the community, during drought season, they can also allow them to graze their cattle in specific areas to avoid conflict. But indeed in this modern-day Kenya, the retrogressive act of cattle rustling should be addressed by the state. The community whose land is sacred to them should be educated on how to graze their cattle and Value addition initiatives should also be set up like Abatours, meat companies and the likes.
Our beautiful land -'Olari Ng'iro ' (Now turned into Kuki Gall man) .The vast lands of the greater Laikipia-Samburu land where we've been made slaves.A place where the MAA cattle could flourish to thousands now we have nothing to brag of.Pain!!!
@@emmanuelcalpymbella657 This can be dealt with by education, grants, work of international organizations helping to change agricultural management style, political agreements, but this is no excuse to steal land from the native people, they own this land and they will take it back whether anyone likes it or not. If I were a European landowner in Africa I would have sold now, when I can still sell it and not have to give it away for free, because big changes in the world are ahead and people are waking up to unfairness and land concentration in the hands of the few rich ones who are often foreigners.
The natives have neither the intelligence nor the culture to preserve this beautiful land. Their hunter and gatherer way of life has destroyed all their land, and now they want to guilt-shame a white woman for owning and preserving this beautiful land in Africa. If this land is given to the natives, first they'll start a tribal conflict over it, then poach all the wildlife, then turn the land into a slum. Just leave the woman alone!
The issue here is overgrazing. Kuki Gallmann has done a commendable job protecting the wildlife while the raiders continue to destroy their environment. The reason they are struggling is because they are too stubborn to sell their animals when demand is high. They believe that having many animals is a sign of wealth. This boorish approach to life is what is causing them trouble.
it's politics, local chiefs/politicians don't intervene because they want these settlers to be displaced sell their lands for cheap prices due to insecurity....then politician tycoons will grab and own them just like kenyatta and moi families Remember there's rising rare mineral and crude oil deposit discoveries countrywide in the past 15years which only intensify the 'cattle rusling conflict'
I also found it interesting that the proceeds she made from the book and film, were put back into that land; another country. That benefits the region as well. I understand the people who were born and raised there… yet, I understand the people like Kuki, who are trying to improve the area. They complain about the white man and their land but they also take their cattle to graze that land, that’s been worked by someone else. What if there wasn’t that land, that has been worked by someone else? There would be no green for their cattle to be taken to and fed?
@proudmarinemomma827, and who told you the land been worked by someone else? Its the single largest private land holding by a White Family, who came and met the tribes grazing the land. Its the same attitude by white people clinging to a colonial legacy. That feeling of white saviour, coming to save the poor Africans. East Africans had been battling these colonials who refused let go of the colonial legacy. sooner or Later, it will end. Africa is grappling with populace expansion, and single childless white family is refusing to let go of a pastoral land they grabbed.
excuse me what land has been worked on that land the area simply has different climate and how did this family own this land? the pokots have every right to graze there
Brilliant piece, offering a nuanced portrayal of the land issues in Laikipia. Brams piece provides a balanced perspective, encompassing viewpoints from current landowners and the region's indigenous inhabitants.
I appreciate nature conservation efforts by this white settler family, but they must notice they must notice that they stick out like a sore thumb as a rich family surrounded by poverty. This white settler family should invest in empowering local communities through education and job provisionto avoid this conflict.
Education is always key; with anything. The place I see on here, is beautiful. I think of what it would look like, had she not gone there and helped the area. I think most of that area would look like the rest of the land; it would be brown. I love all animals and people. You just need people who are willing to learn and educate themselves; and then work at making it better. It could be done for the betterment of future generations.
This is what I have always thought being one of the members neighbouring the vast laikipia private ranches.Though it's a serious conflict coz we've been termed as bandits in our land that we have been found in.
No, they should just return the land to real owners, local people. Otherwise it will end up being taken, simply. The colonialist system will not survive for much longer, my friend, a couple of more decades left on it. I'd understand though if it was given to the state of Kenya to become a Park/state Nature preserve where people can visit. Kenya and its native people should decide what to do with it, not the UN or foreign land grabbers.
But overgrazing makes the situation worse. The other side is greener, not because of irrigation, but the fact that the pressure on it is much lesser. Africa needs to stop this old method of pastoral nomadism
@@Anonymous-o6q6o but pastoral nomadism is a problem not only to Kenya. I am in Cameroon, and it is also a problem here. Same with Nigeria. Africa really needs to adopt more sustainable methods of cattle keeping. The climate on the other side of the barbed fence can not be any different my dear. Think deeper
They always claim climate change is causing the conflicts between conservation efforts and local communities that live outside protected wildlife lands!? Just as they blame climate change on everything today remotely related to climate change? But they wont blame the bad policies that antagonize local communities and conservation efforts? And most of the policies employed are legacy-policies of colonial past that were never reformed to holistically include local communities and traditional local knowledge thereof, as equal-partners within a properly integrated land-use and land management model! Instead the colonial approach towards conservation that marginalized local communities, still being used today in Kenya and many other countries in Africa, eg Zimbabwe land crisis, continues to push local people to un-arable lands or unsuitable lands for animal husbandry next to labelling them as trespassers or poachers! And then people like Kuki and her daughter.. want to be seen as innocent well wishers who are being victimized? Bullshit!
It's no secret that the pokot have been terrorizing every other community around them for decades, the question is how can the Pokot manage their very vast lands so they have food & pasture for their cattle.
Maybe if Sveva Gallmann were to gathrr together the women of the area, an equable arrangement for land, people and animals could be found. Guns and drones feed nobody.
I am shocked to see how these newcomers just come and take the land away from the locals and act like they are in the right. This is an ugly remnant of colonialism. But people are rising now, with internet being widespread it's hard to hide the truth about continued colonialist exploitation and land concentration in the few hands (often of foreigners) This horrible system will not live for much longer (just like exploitative capitalism). They are not conversationalists, they're colonialist foreign land grabbers. In my home country a foreigner can not own land, plain and simple and it's very, very hard to get citizenship, this is how we avoided our land being stolen by the rich Europeans.
What are the laws of Kenya in regards to land ownership? It's obvious the land needs management. Were the people of Kenya always pastoral? This short incomplete documentary could be expanded way beyond its voyeuristic approach.
Hallo Herr Vermeulen, sehr guter Beitrag. Kenia ist ein sehr interessantes Land. Ich habe Freunde von dort. Ich würde Sie gerne anregen soziopolitische Beiträge zu erarbeiten. Mehr in den Städten. Gibt es auf Stammesebene verfestigten Nepotismus (rhetorisch)? Einfach ein bunter Strauss aus den Städten wäre schön. Danke
Overgrazing is a big problem for ignorant herders. Do they even own the land? Don't they use the public land and make a profit with their cows but pay no land use fee or taxes. These lawbreakers should be working with the land owner to buy a limited use permit but they just act like they are entitled to take whatever they want. The wild animals having good land is not the question. If these ignorant herders had their way there would be no wild animals left. How do you educate these herders?
Something that a lot of the whites do not realise is this used to be communal land. Anyone from the local community could access and no one could fence it off. Now some settlers come in and claim it, fence it off, cut nomadic people's and animals migration routes and expect the local community to not want their land back. Sorry, read a little about colonisation. Once we Black Africans own tracts of land in Europe, then maybe the white Europeans can own land in Africa.
@@keepthedeltapositive The Indians did not make records of ownership but they knew the borders of their land and the other tribe's lands. There was a lot of killing between tribes over land possession and use. Tribal wars were common and were the reason they could not come together and fight the white man. They could not imagine the invasion that was growing.
The Buffalo grazed and moved on so grazing is a good thing. It's overgrazing that hurts. Federal land charges fees for grazing. Sometimes it can be unfair for ranchers because the land needs some grazing.
It's the alienation of the herder's homeland.people have deserts that are their homelands defended with nukes.graze to the ground if need be but it's the herders' cradle that can never,ever be taken away.kuki gallman is just a shameless, hateful n greedy land n cradle thief.her italians need even more help n matronage.
I'm born and bred in Samburu, a peace champion and a youth leader and a pastrolist son.
Like any other society, there are elements in Tiaty West pokot who are being financed to cause mayhem and steal cows while maiming, killing and displacing people. They have caused untold suffering.
The Pokot leadership needs to educate their people on the need to abandon cattle rustling and banditry, killings and maimings. This is a retrogressive culture that is leading to underdevelopment, retardation of economic growth, lack of access to schooling, and loss of lives and it's giving a bad name to the Pokot community.
The deaths in the Samburu west,my ancestral home in Samburu county are heart-wrenching. The killings of school children is spiteful.
We have lost over 8o people in a year, my people have been squatters and land gone taken by Bandits who have reign supreme in Amaiya belt.
So sad, the government have been quite. Samburu lives matter and justice for samburu.
It is heartbreaking to see an icon like Kuki being that sick, watching her dream breaking into pieces. I hope Sveva will be able to hold on ❤️ Hugs and kisses from Italy 🇮🇹
Call her back.shes a land thief n cradle snatcher.its our motherland.we don't need a white saviour here.benito mussolini.she can go to southern Italy,
I’ve just now heard of this woman. I’m currently watching the movie. She’s had an extraordinary life it seems. I’m in the USA. I’d heard of the movie but hadn’t watched it and never knew it was based on a true story. I wish I knew where to send a letter to them. God bless them and the good people of that region.
Her book "I dreamt of Africa".
In 2004 when my brother was dying I've started sending her emails and she ALWAYS replied to me! I am Italian and visited Kenya for volunteer reasons many times and drove through the Rift Valley but never visited Laikipia despite her invite to meet her at the ranch around 2008! I wish I had the time to meet her back then! It's so sad to see Kuki so frail and fragile! It breaks my heart!
I am reading her book at the moment. I was born in Kampala, Uganda. We lived in Jinja for a while and in 1954 we moved to Tanga on the coast of Tanganyika now Tanzania. I spent my school days at a boys boarding school in the Usambara Mts, at the infamous 'Soni Prison Camp'!! We finally flew back to the UK in 1962, after independence. Another good book, recently published is 'Zamani' by Jane Bryce. Life in Africa similar to mine.
Verrrry well done documentary👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
i am from kenya currently living in nairobi my honest opinion is an honest opinion is an honest dialogue between kukis and the pokot ...a possible remedy is an arrangement where the cows are allowed to grace in cetain sections at a fee during dry seasons and the conservation goes on, land is becoming scare all over recently the presidents land uhuru was invaded almost for the same reasons nad this act is to come up with a solution that is long lasting solution ...the best solution wd be to sell partly
Can't sell to me what you stole from me.gallman should be in prison for theft.mwizi mkubwa.
Am a Kenyan Living in Leuven, Belgium but have never known about Gallman's Land,,, wow I feel sad for her, The issue with the cattle rustling by the Pokot is not isolated to her alone, because of her skin colour , (which is really sad actually)they also raid other communities like the tugens, in Baringo county, My take is Kuki's daughter should engage the Pokot community elders, in a honest and multi-sectoral dialogue, to avoid conflict as they see her as an enemy and threat although the land legally belongs to her , protected by the state it's clear as well that she is being sabotaged by some leaders in government who arm the Pokot bandits. They should take part in capacity-building initiatives, help the community set up water points for their cattle, and community empowerment for the women in the community, during drought season, they can also allow them to graze their cattle in specific areas to avoid conflict. But indeed in this modern-day Kenya, the retrogressive act of cattle rustling should be addressed by the state. The community whose land is sacred to them should be educated on how to graze their cattle and Value addition initiatives should also be set up like Abatours, meat companies and the likes.
Our beautiful land -'Olari Ng'iro ' (Now turned into Kuki Gall man) .The vast lands of the greater Laikipia-Samburu land where we've been made slaves.A place where the MAA cattle could flourish to thousands now we have nothing to brag of.Pain!!!
Your grazing activities would have made it a huge desert. You guys don't know how to progress out of the primitive forms of cattle rearing
@@emmanuelcalpymbella657 This can be dealt with by education, grants, work of international organizations helping to change agricultural management style, political agreements, but this is no excuse to steal land from the native people, they own this land and they will take it back whether anyone likes it or not. If I were a European landowner in Africa I would have sold now, when I can still sell it and not have to give it away for free, because big changes in the world are ahead and people are waking up to unfairness and land concentration in the hands of the few rich ones who are often foreigners.
you"re suffering from severe ignorance.@@emmanuelcalpymbella657
The natives have neither the intelligence nor the culture to preserve this beautiful land. Their hunter and gatherer way of life has destroyed all their land, and now they want to guilt-shame a white woman for owning and preserving this beautiful land in Africa. If this land is given to the natives, first they'll start a tribal conflict over it, then poach all the wildlife, then turn the land into a slum. Just leave the woman alone!
The issue here is overgrazing. Kuki Gallmann has done a commendable job protecting the wildlife while the raiders continue to destroy their environment. The reason they are struggling is because they are too stubborn to sell their animals when demand is high. They believe that having many animals is a sign of wealth. This boorish approach to life is what is causing them trouble.
it's politics, local chiefs/politicians don't intervene because they want these settlers to be displaced sell their lands for cheap prices due to insecurity....then politician tycoons will grab and own them just like kenyatta and moi families
Remember there's rising rare mineral and crude oil deposit discoveries countrywide in the past 15years which only intensify the 'cattle rusling conflict'
I also found it interesting that the proceeds she made from the book and film, were put back into that land; another country. That benefits the region as well. I understand the people who were born and raised there… yet, I understand the people like Kuki, who are trying to improve the area. They complain about the white man and their land but they also take their cattle to graze that land, that’s been worked by someone else. What if there wasn’t that land, that has been worked by someone else? There would be no green for their cattle to be taken to and fed?
@proudmarinemomma827, and who told you the land been worked by someone else? Its the single largest private land holding by a White Family, who came and met the tribes grazing the land. Its the same attitude by white people clinging to a colonial legacy. That feeling of white saviour, coming to save the poor Africans. East Africans had been battling these colonials who refused let go of the colonial legacy. sooner or Later, it will end. Africa is grappling with populace expansion, and single childless white family is refusing to let go of a pastoral land they grabbed.
Don't mind them. I don't know what is wrong with us Africans. Sustainability mindset is very far from us.
excuse me what land has been worked on that land the area simply has different climate and how did this family own this land? the pokots have every right to graze there
This seems to be a serious issue that needs to be handled carefully before it becomes a huge conflict.
Makena's Hills is such a scenic and beautiful place!
Like so many conflicts, it's complicated. I can see both sides, there doesn't seem to be a simple solution.
Brilliant piece, offering a nuanced portrayal of the land issues in Laikipia. Brams piece provides a balanced perspective, encompassing viewpoints from current landowners and the region's indigenous inhabitants.
I appreciate nature conservation efforts by this white settler family, but they must notice they must notice that they stick out like a sore thumb as a rich family surrounded by poverty. This white settler family should invest in empowering local communities through education and job provisionto avoid this conflict.
That is the solution. It is seems the conception of a gated community in a surounding starving human community.
Education is always key; with anything. The place I see on here, is beautiful. I think of what it would look like, had she not gone there and helped the area. I think most of that area would look like the rest of the land; it would be brown. I love all animals and people. You just need people who are willing to learn and educate themselves; and then work at making it better. It could be done for the betterment of future generations.
This is what I have always thought being one of the members neighbouring the vast laikipia private ranches.Though it's a serious conflict coz we've been termed as bandits in our land that we have been found in.
They have many community projects including education
No, they should just return the land to real owners, local people. Otherwise it will end up being taken, simply. The colonialist system will not survive for much longer, my friend, a couple of more decades left on it. I'd understand though if it was given to the state of Kenya to become a Park/state Nature preserve where people can visit. Kenya and its native people should decide what to do with it, not the UN or foreign land grabbers.
This also happens to the neighbouring kikuyu community whos cattle are stolen.
A great work of art a masterpiece
The land belongs to the locals, period.
She needs to leave by choice or by force. Those are the only options she has.
Even if she leaves that land will be overgrazed and become a desert
the interviewer did not ask how they acquire the land in the first place
I wish to see what would be the set back had this happened in Germany
Well that was my thought after posting in this box.
But overgrazing makes the situation worse. The other side is greener, not because of irrigation, but the fact that the pressure on it is much lesser. Africa needs to stop this old method of pastoral nomadism
its not overgrazing its because the climate that side is better and stop saying africa its kenya
@@Anonymous-o6q6o but pastoral nomadism is a problem not only to Kenya. I am in Cameroon, and it is also a problem here. Same with Nigeria. Africa really needs to adopt more sustainable methods of cattle keeping. The climate on the other side of the barbed fence can not be any different my dear. Think deeper
They always claim climate change is causing the conflicts between conservation efforts and local communities that live outside protected wildlife lands!? Just as they blame climate change on everything today remotely related to climate change? But they wont blame the bad policies that antagonize local communities and conservation efforts? And most of the policies employed are legacy-policies of colonial past that were never reformed to holistically include local communities and traditional local knowledge thereof, as equal-partners within a properly integrated land-use and land management model! Instead the colonial approach towards conservation that marginalized local communities, still being used today in Kenya and many other countries in Africa, eg Zimbabwe land crisis, continues to push local people to un-arable lands or unsuitable lands for animal husbandry next to labelling them as trespassers or poachers! And then people like Kuki and her daughter.. want to be seen as innocent well wishers who are being victimized? Bullshit!
It's no secret that the pokot have been terrorizing every other community around them for decades, the question is how can the Pokot manage their very vast lands so they have food & pasture for their cattle.
Kuki.. white or black you are my Hero!!!
Makena... please Carry on the mantle...! You will do better than Mama
That doesn't justify stealing their land
Do Africans Own Ranches in Europe???? Lets start there.... Govts should repossess that land and make it a national park, an station KWS rangers there.
Yes. A few do in England. However, this green piece of land will disappear in a few weeks, if handed to the graziers
@@emmanuelcalpymbella657 very true! They just want to graze but not to put in the work for the grass.
@@emmanuelcalpymbella657 No, they don't.
Maybe if Sveva Gallmann were to gathrr together the women of the area, an equable arrangement for land, people and animals could be found. Guns and drones feed nobody.
of course it goes back to colonialism. Now all these tribes are vilified for what is rightfully theirs.
You are right, afrikans must keep non blacks out
I am shocked to see how these newcomers just come and take the land away from the locals and act like they are in the right. This is an ugly remnant of colonialism. But people are rising now, with internet being widespread it's hard to hide the truth about continued colonialist exploitation and land concentration in the few hands (often of foreigners) This horrible system will not live for much longer (just like exploitative capitalism). They are not conversationalists, they're colonialist foreign land grabbers. In my home country a foreigner can not own land, plain and simple and it's very, very hard to get citizenship, this is how we avoided our land being stolen by the rich Europeans.
What are the laws of Kenya in regards to land ownership? It's obvious the land needs management. Were the people of Kenya always pastoral? This short incomplete documentary could be expanded way beyond its voyeuristic approach.
Hallo Herr Vermeulen, sehr guter Beitrag. Kenia ist ein sehr interessantes Land. Ich habe Freunde von dort. Ich würde Sie gerne anregen soziopolitische Beiträge zu erarbeiten. Mehr in den Städten. Gibt es auf Stammesebene verfestigten Nepotismus (rhetorisch)? Einfach ein bunter Strauss aus den Städten wäre schön. Danke
Don't even go afrika
Africa is a beautiful place thus community specifically is the problem due to cattle rustling otherwise Kenya is very peaceful
The injustice of the colonizers.😠😒 Everywhere they go they leave a trail of destruction.
Overgrazing is a big problem for ignorant herders. Do they even own the land? Don't they use the public land and make a profit with their cows but pay no land use fee or taxes. These lawbreakers should be working with the land owner to buy a limited use permit but they just act like they are entitled to take whatever they want. The wild animals having good land is not the question. If these ignorant herders had their way there would be no wild animals left. How do you educate these herders?
Something that a lot of the whites do not realise is this used to be communal land. Anyone from the local community could access and no one could fence it off. Now some settlers come in and claim it, fence it off, cut nomadic people's and animals migration routes and expect the local community to not want their land back. Sorry, read a little about colonisation. Once we Black Africans own tracts of land in Europe, then maybe the white Europeans can own land in Africa.
@@keepthedeltapositive The Indians did not make records of ownership but they knew the borders of their land and the other tribe's lands. There was a lot of killing between tribes over land possession and use. Tribal wars were common and were the reason they could not come together and fight the white man. They could not imagine the invasion that was growing.
The Buffalo grazed and moved on so grazing is a good thing. It's overgrazing that hurts. Federal land charges fees for grazing. Sometimes it can be unfair for ranchers because the land needs some grazing.
You are wrong Idiot!
@@paradisoloperu1628 You are correct. They do pay grazing fees to the FEDS! Yes, I was an idiot for posting this.
how did they get that land at first??
why not giving % of land to make a dairy farm and share some % of profit with them????
It seems to me that overstocking is the main problem of the herders.
Absolutely. Too much pressure on the land
It's the alienation of the herder's homeland.people have deserts that are their homelands defended with nukes.graze to the ground if need be but it's the herders' cradle that can never,ever be taken away.kuki gallman is just a shameless, hateful n greedy land n cradle thief.her italians need even more help n matronage.
Who is paying for the military sevirity?
You think.
These people came all the way from Italy to grab land from the locals.
Isnt it the kenyans govts duty to look after wildlife?
The audacity with this woman