The Aggetts: They call Laikipia their home

Recent conflicts in Laikipia County pitting ranchers against pastoralists with some political spicing up, obscure a fact; some of the ranchers have been there for more over 100 years.

They made Kenya their home, long before uhuru. Take the case of the Aggetts who arrived in Kenya around 1909 from the Eastern Cape in South Africa and before that Devon, England. They were a large family; Thomas Edward Aggett had married William Alexander Smith’s sister Marjorie Weir Smith and William Alexander Smith had married Thomas Edward Aggett’s sister Emma Jane Aggett (No error!).