Let’s learn bitter lessons on land alienation from India’s debacle

By Keya Acharya

Listening to Kenya’s land issues was a peephole into a complicated and historically iniquitous heritage that the country is landed with today. As the National Land Policy itself acknowledges, Kenya’s ambiguous land-related laws have resulted in disinheritance, conflict, tenure insecurity, political, social, economic and environmental problems. The point though is that there are some avenues of hope that stretch out as examples from across the Indian Ocean, from India.