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The tall shamba of the Facebook farmer

KISUMU: Anyone practising crop or animal husbandry on a piece of land smaller than 100 acres, according to an old lecturer of Agriculture at a prominent Kenyan university, should not consider himself a farmer. The problem with this guy is that he forgets that today you can’t claim land ownership by hurling stones to the furthest point or riding a horse from one point to when it will be exhausted.

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