The battle for Kuki Gallmann's land in Kenya | VPRO Documentary
The battle for Kuki Gallmann's land in Kenya | VPRO Documentary
Bram Vermeulen travels to Kenya, to Kuki Gallmann’s ranch where pastoralists are competing for land with the Italian writer. Who wins when climate change turns into a battle for the last piece of land where you can survive? How did Gallmann’s dream get so derailed?
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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.
White saviour syndrome, Putin speaks to gallman, the facade is over.italy actually needs her help.go help your people gallman.n those are not bandits, They are the victims of your theft of their homes,the heritage of their children.they are righting the greatest crime you can commit against a people,the gulag in Africa.we see the greed n hate for black people here.julius malema needs to visit
These people came all the way from Italy to grab land from the locals.
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!
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.
You think.
First of all, I see the land that is brown and without water, then I see the land green and lush. Can the gov't not drill wells to bring water to the surface to water the brown and dying land and keep peace. If all are allowed to graze the lush green land of Gallmann, that land too will die and then what will the people do. No one seems to care except the whites and the people born there do not have the means to help themselves. Outside help is needed as is the present gov't to bring the dead back to life.
Shouldn't have tried to steal the land from Africans, the native people. It's not America, Africans couldn't be exterminated or driven away unlike Native Americans. This whole colonialist European landowner thing is living out it's last decades, then it will be over and the land will be returned. I decided to watch the movie again today, after so many years, and was very uncomfortable with portrayal of Africans and the whole "European land grabbers move in and own the land taken away from the locals" thing. They have no real claim on this land. So grateful where I'm from foreigners are not allowed to buy up land, otherwise we would have lost our lands to them and become destitute homeless, there're always rich people prowling the globe looking for assets to buy out from under the locals and Kuki owns close to 100,000 hectares, while real locals own nothing! I think big revolutionary changes are ahead in the world because of this unfair and seemingly hopeless situation.
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.
Kenyan government is so soft. This people need to be deported
Homo sapiens are destroying the planet and themselves. We will be gone in 100 years
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
why not giving % of land to make a dairy farm and share some % of profit with them????
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.
It seems to me that overstocking is the main problem of the herders.
An amicable solution needed here before it turns into those white owned farms invasion in SA,in 2018 pokot community said she had a colonial mindset
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
A great work of art a masterpiece
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 🇮🇹
Yea. There are no simple answers…only the lesser of two evils. As to who has the original rights to the land, science shows that we ALL originated in Africa. Indeed, Africans are the original colonisers. The notion that Africa belongs to black Africans only is flawed. Surrendering the land to the surrounding community will soon see it barren with the wildlife dying or being killed. This is the story of black Africa. Yes, both Arab and European people performed atrocities in Africa, they (Europeans in particular) have also done the most for Africa's advancement. Like I said, there is no easy answer.
Pokots and Samburus are the “The Last Witch Hunter”s in this scenario. She brought the “Black Death” of colonialism and privilege to us, and as long as she is alive, the death will come upon the land. She will bring more enemies and the African people will suffer. So if the pokot and samburus are strategic, …
The land belonged to the people. It belonged to Africans
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!!!
Verrrry well done documentary👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The injustice of the colonizers.😠😒 Everywhere they go they leave a trail of destruction.
This seems to be a serious issue that needs to be handled carefully before it becomes a huge conflict.
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.
And the situation led ys as black people to turn against each other to survive
Why is it white people have all the money to do what they want but not black the white creat poverty for black
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.
Africans are still slaves in their own lands.
It is NOT her land. She's a foreigner and should be ejected through any means necessary. Cowardly people in that region. They should have dealt with her long time ago. Mzungu in Africa deserves nothing but bayonets and bullets.
She need to leave it's African problem let's deal out problem by Africans not someone from western
Like so many conflicts, it's complicated. I can see both sides, there doesn't seem to be a simple solution.
The land belongs to the locals, period.
She needs to leave by choice or by force. Those are the only options she has.
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?
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.
Who is paying for the military sevirity?
This also happens to the neighbouring kikuyu community whos cattle are stolen.
I am glad this white woman did not get that land, as a black man I have to protect this land
No white person has any right to own land in afrika