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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[@namte3399]

I have watched it today Dec 14th. And i will say it loud Kenya needs A CHANGE AND GET THEIR LANDS BACK

[@francismurage895]

We have leaders that continue protecting the colonial legacy

[@petergachuru]

We are slaves in our own land

[@chipashamoyo6435]

The Kenyan army shooting at their own people, calling your own people bandits. The bandit is the one you are protecting fools. That Kuki. So revolting, disgusting and shameful

[@charleskamau5718]

Kuki is a white bandit

[@joywanjiru5963]

The way the army man is talking about his fellow kenyans is shameful. How can somebody be this brainwashed?

[@josephgomalo41]

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!

[@Strawb3rrym1nts]

I could not have worded it better.

[@ToIsleOfView]

If the land will not sustain the population, then they can move, or they can improve the land. Land improvement is expensive, but I think it is the best solution for everybody. Education and government can make land improvements. Desert reclamation is going on all over Africa and Asia. It takes years of time, which many people don't have, so a 10-year subsidy needs to be worked out.

[@iseektruth64]

@josephgomalo41 from my experience as a Kenyan, I can tell you that this situation is closely monitored by powerful forces in government. Never underestimate the fathomless greed and corruption of powerful people in the Kenya government, both elected officials and unelected bureaucrats, who are patiently waiting for the situation to get out of hand so they can swoop in and "solve" the crisis by grabbing all of this land for themselves, their voting constituents, and all their cronies that they owe in-kind debts. They do not care about the whites, the pastoralists, the farmers, and least of all, for the precious wildlife resources that so far have been consciously refuged here. They care nothing for the long-term stewardship of the land and its natural resources as a patrimony of the people of Kenya. Except for the obvious and world renowned game parks and reserves like Tsavo and Amboseli, which bring in huge profits for these same politicians and bureaucrats in their preserved condition, the less well know but just as precious "private" reserves in Kenya are on the grabbing list of the powerful elites. They know that these areas are off the radar of the international conservationists and are easy prey because they can just say that they are taking land from the "evil white landowners" and "giving it back" to the "rightful African owners". Who could oppose that? They know they will have the current gullible and self righteous world DEI (diversity equity inclusion) mob on their side, and they will laugh all the way to the lands offices as they grab the land for themselves and their posterity. I am sorry to sound so cynical, but I have seen this scenario play out too many times in my 60 years of life as a Kenyan. I expect this will be the same case.

[@dennismutethia898]

So she is protecting our land from us. Seriously!!

[@solutions36512]

It's her land, not yours. If you want it, buy it.

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

​@@solutions36512i hope your not Adrican

[@blackpalacemusic]

​@@solutions36512Did she buy it?

[@keepitreal335]

Imgn 😅

[@had7669]

yes, because whites build and blacks destroy. all over the continent it happens

[@manyisho_production]

the interviewer did not ask how they acquire the land in the first place

[@planetI911]

They bought actually, I've read her book

[@Thee_loneranger]

​@@planetI911she bought community land that belongs to Pastrolist communities because our country is corrupt.... Did the communities get the option to buy it? According to the communities they believe no one owns the land.. and the entitlement that if she doesn't protect the land it who will? The communities lived in the land before she dragged her ass from Italy. Isn't there land in Italy that needs protecting?

[@paulirving2986]

The White Supremacists/Racists do NOT say or do ANYTHING that does not maintain and or uphold THE SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY/RACISM.

[@KecksBarü]

I have watched it just now, that was my first thought. Illegal white settlers. Leave an you will see who's going to du it.

[@Napolean46]

The land is well off with her protection. You know kenyans​@@Thee_loneranger

[@nothere5750]

why would anyone need so much land for???they are systemically trying to keep the communities around them poor

[@nyakwarObat]

No, they've already made them poor. Where the hell have you been to not know this? 🙄

[@W-NJERI-MUTHONI]

This is how they are using police resources. Not to protect us Kenyans??? A black man saying he wishes he could carry gr£n@des to sh00t his own people because of a settler who stole from him??? Sad. This makes me want to cry. The way this woman makes black people wear uniforms to serve her.... I am crying 😢

[@Breakthrough-jl2gb]

It’s a shame!

[@muriukiwarui6064]

The incompetence of our government is laughable. Why does land conservation have to be done by a private citizen? And why are local communities being considered bandits in their own land, while their own cattle, which is their livelihood, are dying off? Why aren't there mechanisms allowing the communities to benefit from the land while still protecting the wildlife and habitats, like the maasai in tsavo? Why is this not a public national park and open to tourism, which will open up the area and bring economic relief to local communities, who will then not have to only rely on cattle and rustling simply to survive? Again, why is this private property?

[@BlakCat-c3s]

Imaging such a land wha an evil pple,denying the natives their land

[@mumbingigi645]

You are asking the right questions. This should be a park. Locals should also be allowed to graze in an efficient manner.

[@coyoluo]

It's time we took back our land.

[@princewillie9752]

These people came all the way from Italy to grab land from the locals.

[@AKu-xs5vg]

Europe*

[@thukusimon]

Italy is in europe​@@AKu-xs5vg

[@Africanmama-u5q]

How did she acquire this land? She needs to return this land to the community. Which African can be allowed to own this much land in Italy?

[@mikemike5973]

If they have enough money sure they can

[@sirkaal]

Did he just say he wishes the drones could carry grenade so he could unlive his own people? What a fool that soldier is. How is this fair? This is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil. We are protecting one person's comfort for an entire community's lives.

[@bonfacewachira3297]

Jomo Kenyatta protected this colonialist from being evicted by the independence struggle patriots (MAU MAU) ,he sided with these white landlords a scar that has never healed among Mau mau descendants

[@nyakwarObat]

Question is what did they give him for the favour

[@gitgenKE]

Is that even a question? How many acres do the Kenyatta's own, plus a liberal president to allow these atrocities to continue till these day​@@nyakwarObat

[@BM7-j7m]

But you loved your Kenyatta as a god and did everything to protect his name and even elect his son as president. Kikuyus!!!!!!! Someday, this will hit you more than any other tribe in Kenya.

[@nyakwarObat]

@@gitgenKE you want imbecile arguments. Move 🙄

[@RuthNarrativetales]

​@@nyakwarObatwho cares what they gave ??was the community involved??

[@jamesnjenga813]

How does one even get such security while our border aren't even as guarded

[@Emillyleilahhomeandcooking]

Great question!

[@TheAnwar1982]

One person taking a whole land belonging to the community. It is embarassing that she doesn't see anything wrong with it. Kindly read a book called "The Big Conservation Lie" writen by the local Kenyan writers. These heartless people are making millions while making sure that the communities around remain poor by using the name "conservation". It stinks and very painful for us the locals.

[@nyakwarObat]

Don't be silly. She sees what's wrong but she still wants the claim regardless. She's not that stupid

[@paradisoloperu1628]

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]

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

[@analovecats]

@@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.

[@flashnews_ke]

you"re suffering from severe ignorance.@@emmanuelcalpymbella657

[@TataMotivation]

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!

[@Simba-145]

You have a slave name too

[@alexandrepereira3902]

I wish to see what would be the set back had this happened in Germany

[@Demasiocorazon]

Well that was my thought after posting in this box.

[@nyakwarObat]

Would never happen in Germany. Stop playing 🙄

[@namte3399]

The Kenyan officer wishing death on his fellow shows how this is really serious psyops

[@dwamburu1]

This is a situation where human greed and lack of empathy reigns.

[@lakeinrocks]

Instead of engaging the locals, "Bring more international organizations " She, together with the locals, would have reached a compromise without government involvement. I don’t understand, though, why they should own 98k acres. Can I do the same in Italy? That land was taken from the locals by the colonialists and should have gone back to them, not get sold. The locals can be educated and work on conservation together, rotating grazing areas to ensure both the wild animals and the locals survive. This cannot continue.

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

International organisations for what....nonsense...

[@charleskamau5718]

You are talking about owning 94k acres in Italy, you can't even own it in your mother country

[@chipashamoyo6435]

These people are shameless, that land does not belong to that European woman Kuki. It belongs to black Africans. Our land is part of our identity

[@arcticlion7794]

if it was "your land" it would be overpopulated barren full of starving cattle and elephants would be a thing of the past like mammoths.

[@chipashamoyo6435]

@arcticlion7794 you have mammoths where you come from??? I guess you also have dinasours..

[@chipashamoyo6435]

@arcticlion7794 mxm futsek!

[@emmanuelbenjamin7709]

​​@@arcticlion7794 You are A very ignorant person. It is our land and she will leave by hook or crook. Period!!!

[@chipashamoyo6435]

@@arcticlion7794 what we do with that land is really none of your business.

[@jobkiprotich5321]

Just sad. We Kenyans still live like we are under colonialism. We should fight for our land.

[@raindrops1942]

The land belongs to the locals, period. She needs to leave by choice or by force. Those are the only options she has.

[@kandieeunice8452]

Even if she leaves that land will be overgrazed and become a desert

[@brunoearth69]

​@@kandieeunice8452that is not an excuse for her not to leave. Even before she went there it was still a grazing land and it was not a desert

[@chipashamoyo6435]

💯 Africa is not for the taking GET OUT!!

[@coyoluo]

@@kandieeunice8452 So what?

[@WandiaNjama]

And why is it any of her business? It's our land, they need to leave!

[@proudmarinemomma827]

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.

[@alicjatomczynska4768]

Her book "I dreamt of Africa".

[@jambogb]

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!

[@peterwillis4239]

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.

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

​@@peterwillis4239white people have different stories from ours....

[@Bold618]

Funny how white peeps see nothing wrong with Kukis misadventures and extended colonialism in Kenya. You don't consider Africans as people. They don't matter to you. Well we matter to nature and you can't get rid of us. You will keep failing and failing. Kuki should collect everything she can carry plus her that little bunch of lies she calls a book and leave Kenya for Kenyans.

[@josephgakunga5296]

This also happens to the neighbouring kikuyu community whos cattle are stolen.

[@freemanmwifi6948]

This seems to be a serious issue that needs to be handled carefully before it becomes a huge conflict.

[@dwamburu1]

It will never become a serious conflict as long as we have leaders who are themselves land grabbers.

[@Bold618]

The only serious issue is that she grabbed land and she needs to leave. Period.

[@samuelmbugua8414]

We need also this one for Nambia people.

[@RBG1st]

Wazungu lazima waende! Wanachofanya ni kuiba tu.

[@mimisikujui5514]

Ukweli kabisaa..as if Kuna Pokot anaown land huko Kwa wazungu ...wtf

[@miltononyango]

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

[@NgugiKamau-rr3zp]

Can't sell to me what you stole from me.gallman should be in prison for theft.mwizi mkubwa.

[@sandezack]

conservation makachieth, ya mavi?

[@nyakwarObat]

Milton, you need to stop chatty nonsense and step aside. You ain't ready yet 🙄

[@BM7-j7m]

There should be no dialogue in place. Let the locals invade them and possess their land and heritage. Kama mbaya mbaya

[@Bold618]

Milton yours is an educated fool's reasoning. Kuki is a terrorist who should face the Kenyan law, be prosecuted, jailed and made to compensate those communities, HEAVILY.

[@Fivepointcalv]

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.

[@jamesngari7407]

Kuki.. white or black you are my Hero!!! Makena... please Carry on the mantle...! You will do better than Mama

[@NgugiKamau-rr3zp]

That doesn't justify stealing their land

[@philipochieng8090]

​@@NgugiKamau-rr3zp the land belongs to the Maasai people. I don't see them complaining

[@NgugiKamau-rr3zp]

@@philipochieng8090 gallman carries the face of an alien land thief n must be stopped yesterday.hers entails forceful transfer of population n resultant genocide,a clear threshold for prosecution at the i.c.c. with jail time.p.r cannot sanitize criminality n cradle snatching.northern Rangelands Trust is another ancestral land grab attempt with the end being the Red Indianization of the samburu especially so they end up jumping n dressing in feathers for tourists in ridicule.africans have a problem with situational awareness,u first

[@murnyang8381]

@@philipochieng8090 because massai actually were given good lands while pocot remain landless

[@kevokore]

They tried that at the Kerio valley but the Pokot, Marakwet and the Tugen had foreseen their actions 😂

[@shetalketh4461]

Also, the daughter sounds like an awful ,entitled person accompanied by the drone flying cop 🤦🏾‍♀️.

[@DuchessKisumu]

True. Nasty people. You can imagine how they speak about black people in the privacy of their home. Sickening.

[@joschkahurst]

A great work of art a masterpiece

[@forgivepraisebetogod8196]

Once worked here, very rude woman she abuses employees like her own kid

[@BlakCat-c3s]

Mzungu in third world r like that all Hitler descendants

[@lamiyahkenna6707]

This unspeakable!!! Can you imagine owning land in Europe where yuo can drive through for one and a half hours??????

[@raymondmuli9067]

Why did Kuki feel it was HER duty to take care of land that was not hers in the first place?!? Who looked after it before her? How does she decide that it needs guardianship? I don't get it...

[@nishirungu6948]

What most people don't understand is that the most greedy in such cases are our African leaders, if this land goes back to the government, the hunting of all elephants and rhinos will be within a very short period and the land will be divided among them at atmost glutton! Those who've been to this land knlw how beautiful it is!.

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

So the whiteman should own the land...

[@mwangithairu6491]

400KM Square land for one person...

[@Bellanna100]

Imagine 😒

[@bonfacewachira3297]

Under Kenyatta protection

[@nyakwarObat]

​@@bonfacewachira3297after receiving a hefty payment for it. Onyato himself stole a lot of land and sold some

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

Size of Nairobi

[@jobbyomondi8216]

Verrrry well done documentary👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@MundiaKamau]

I agree.

[@mabrenz_n5391]

of course it goes back to colonialism. Now all these tribes are vilified for what is rightfully theirs.

[@ibogggh2975]

You are right, afrikans must keep non blacks out

[@analovecats]

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.

[@TheTeddykimani]

How did foreigners acquire our lands? ,we want our lands back ,please leave

[@nyakwarObat]

😆😆 straight to the point

[@TheTeddykimani]

@nyakwarObat hata south africa the 5M apartheid colonizers must leave ,30 years grace period since fake independence 1994 is over

[@saintpatrickke662]

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.

[@keninswed]

It is sad that people lose their lives due to cattle rustling. Where do they get the guns and ammo? And why are they allowed to carry arms in Kenya?

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

​@@keninswedbecause their land has been taken away

[@KenOmollo]

@@PatrickMaina-u9l Do you believe they were peaceful before?

[@mixzangu]

Makena's Hills is such a scenic and beautiful place!

[@ksgrmdsdl2383]

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.

[@Demasiocorazon]

That is the solution. It is seems the conception of a gated community in a surounding starving human community.

[@proudmarinemomma827]

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.

[@paradisoloperu1628]

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.

[@georginahoare3812]

They have many community projects including education

[@analovecats]

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.

[@phelixouma802]

The last statement got me. For heardsmen, with rains the guns will go silent atleast for a moment

[@glowtechvisuals6176]

Sharing is caring. Educating the community and agreeing on what each one of you want will go along way in development of the community and Kuki's resort . Selfishness resulting to burnt resort, people and animal death, army in your property calling their fellow men bandits will cause unending warfare.

[@Anonymous-o6q6o]

how did they get that land at first??

[@mongalix8]

Very sad state of affairs. 100,000 acres of land for one mzungu family??? Mind-boggling!!!!!. Kenyans should demand their land back.

[@chipashamoyo6435]

So many servants, you would have none back home in your real home in Europe. Acting all bugee in our Africa.....😢

[@Bellanna100]

She look very mean very rude better to work here in Kenya than traveling with her

[@emmanuelcalpymbella657]

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]

its not overgrazing its because the climate that side is better and stop saying africa its kenya

[@emmanuelcalpymbella657]

@@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

[@JackWinston-yb3dy]

How many white land owners have vast acarage in Nigeria and Cameroon? Of thise how many have mixed there capital and blood with locals.

[@kinyolimuthama4752]

This is true. If you look at the state of Maasai Mara. Overgrazing has ruined a huge percentage of the ecosystem to no return.

[@coyoluo]

The pastoralists have lived like that for thousands of years. If you go to Europe, everywhere is cemented, why don't they worry about conservation.

[@nighthoodgaming8662]

Shame on the Kenyans working for Kuki's family. Shame on you Allan. The Gallman's should pack and go and back to Italy. The biggest landthieves after the Kenyattas. At least the Kenyattas are Kenyans!!!

[@juliusmaranga-zh6be]

The animosity won't end as long as there's no justice

[@Kiki-dv3we]

Having purchasing power doesn't exactly give one the right to purchase anything and everything.

[@shetalketh4461]

Hmmm Sad 🙄🙄🙄.... And I bet it was sadder for the Native owners of the land who were probably killed or smn.

[@phylli777]

Covetousness; wanting the thing that does not belong to you, leading to the sin of theft.... The guise of protection is being used to steal people's land. Simple and sad.

[@User-np8zp]

This is disgusting! 🤢

[@josephmwenjeri6806]

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.

[@emmanuelcalpymbella657]

Yes. A few do in England. However, this green piece of land will disappear in a few weeks, if handed to the graziers

[@analovecats]

@@emmanuelcalpymbella657 No, they don't.

[@BM7-j7m]

​@@emmanuelcalpymbella657 Wake up. Which Africans are those?

[@oliverxavier4972]

This land was green for centuries before Kuki with more people grazing and never became a desert. Go back to Europe​@@emmanuelcalpymbella657

[@naominzaomi1202]

Imagine a wheat farmer in England complaining of a Maasai grazing cattle in his field 😊😊😊

[@msoiseth3419]

Like so many conflicts, it's complicated. I can see both sides, there doesn't seem to be a simple solution.

[@coyoluo]

It's not complicated, the land must go back to the original inhabitants

[@nyakwarObat]

It's only complicated if you lacking in the brain department

[@Bold618]

It is not complicated, it is the Kenyan gov that is protecting this invading terrorist who grabbed community land. She must leave.

[@bethshebabosibori]

There should be laws banning settlers from owning land that big. Are they even taxed?

[@Bellanna100]

She look very rude to the workers 😢😢😢 she got altitude just because she has big name and government security in kenya 😮

[@naominzaomi1202]

She is a colonialists daughter, colonialist.

[@alessiodangelo9966]

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 🇮🇹

[@NgugiKamau-rr3zp]

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,

[@BM7-j7m]

Which dream? This isn't their home.

[@kcmcqueen8337]

Icon my foot, the devil is taking notes..

[@ngothomuturi9989]

Hold on to what Stolen land

[@bonfacewachira3297]

Yeah she needs to be cooking pizza in Rome n leave the land

[@MundiaKamau]

Thanks very much, Bram Vermeulen and VPRO, great documentary. Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, 18th December 2024.

[@cleaningwithprue1072]

Isnt it the kenyans govts duty to look after wildlife?

[@Herr2Cents]

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.

[@bensonmuriithi1781]

If her concern is that the land will become brown, let her sell the land to bantu communities like kikuyu, luhya and kisii. By doing so, the land will look more greener than it is today.

[@gudbifariinta3958]

Hhhh you are adding more fuel to the flames. I know you have similar cultures as the whites ie you are farmers so you are back to square one. You are not the solution.

[@nishirungu6948]

And you think bandits would sit and watch in peace?

[@nyakwarObat]

Benson you need to stay out of this. You are part of the problem not solution. It's stupid thinking like yours that created this problem in the first place 🙄

[@AKu-xs5vg]

Not brown, white. It turns their color.

[@DuchessKisumu]

Your ukabila is equally the same as the same as racism. How would you feel if the same was said about land in Kikuyu land?ukabila is a poison in Kenya. Shame on you.

[@JohnGitonga-b5w]

i love Kuki, i love the pokots and i love Kenya. Pastoralism needs to be preserved and a few should not suffer the cost of climate change..

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

What climate change!!!

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

Kwenda huko

[@sharleenjj8548]

Mjinga wewe

[@lisachira8665]

I think this land has minerals that’s why the government is fighting so hard to push locals off

[@MsKros1]

We know, the only reason they fence off community land in Kenya, is for the Mzungu corporates abroad benefiting from Carbon credits to offset their emissions at the expense of our pastoralists. Quite unfortunate!

[@G1T4U]

Alan said i wish this drone could carry grenades ... wild

[@naominzaomi1202]

That's who he is, a killer😮

[@kuyahkudey3217]

The injustice of the colonizers.😠😒 Everywhere they go they leave a trail of destruction.

[@AsherYeshurun]

I think kenya wildlife service needs to carry on the conservation efforts going forward just like Maasai mara and Amboseli .Keep out hungry private developers who might be eyeing this land from the shadows.Create jobs for the local communities, establish an animal husbandry training center , local schools for the kids , build a health center and a veterinary laboratory. This area can sustain itself by rebuilding the resorts again for managed tourism. We have many examples of similar places in kenya like Sibiloi, Nakuru, Mombasa etc.This model can work .Create jobs , revitalize the economy of the region including boreholes in select area for watering points and irrigation of vegetables and other crops in the outlying gardens ( Just like in Tsavo).

[@arcticlion7794]

If the land was owned by black Kenyans or the Kenyian government it wouldn't make any difference. No matter who runs a conservancy. The owners would need to drive out the pastoralists from the overpopulated neighboring areas in order to protect the wildlife. As seen in this exact documentary there are no wild animals in the mismanaged barren overhunted lands surrounding the conservancy. 99% of the comments in this video are straight racist. I wonder what the comments would look like if the land would be owned by corrupt government affiliates or the grandgrandchildren of some black warrior who killed everyone in order to acquire the land 150 years ago

[@malisancube01]

I saw Samuel Jackson's character, in Django. LOL!

[@ksang4973]

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.

[@Demasiocorazon]

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

[@ibogggh2975]

Don't even go afrika

[@kandieeunice8452]

Africa is a beautiful place thus community specifically is the problem due to cattle rustling otherwise Kenya is very peaceful

[@zack7438]

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.

[@ngari117]

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'

[@joemensah9557]

SELFISH GREEDY KUKI_ JUST BENT ON TAKING LAND FROM POOR INDIGENOUS- SHE NO SAVIOR OR ANGEL. BUT THE REVOLUTION IS SLOWLY COMING FROM THE YOUNG.

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

Eeeeh, true homeguard...

[@angushamilton2077]

The elephant in the room is human population growth. When Kuki Gallman bought this land in 1970, Kenya's population was was 11.4 million. In the year this documentary was produced (2022) it was 56.8 million. In twenty five years time it is forecast by the UN to be 100 million. All the while Kenya's land area remains constant. Granted, there is a material migration of rural populations to urban and peri-urban areas within Kenya for economic reasons but there is still a substantial year on year increase in rural populations who choose to stay in their traditional ranges of occupation. Private wildlife conservancies will not survive this trend. Similarly, the future of Kenya's National Parks, as a productive land utilisation proposition, looks increasing outdated and unrealistic.

[@RuthNarrativetales]

Am not from laikipia in my rural home Naivasha We face the same from delamere...its time kenyans get there lands back

[@soinda87]

Now I’m doubting the whole Mau Mau and Kenyatta. Years later this people hold huge chunks of lands with a lot of entitlement. Sad

[@Alf258]

why not giving % of land to make a dairy farm and share some % of profit with them????

[@nyokabi1000]

They should be arrested free land that they never paid for 😢😢😢

[@petergachuru]

That guy in military uniform pretending to be the leader is so disgusting

[@iseektruth64]

I lay the blame for this whole situation at the feet of the Kenya government, past and present. Like the ranger said, if the government had the will and the foresight, the situation could be solved in a "week." If there were vision and disciplined action on the part of the government, a win win win solution could be found so the white land "owners", the pastoralists and the farmers, and most importantly of all, the ecosystem of flora and fauna on which the longterm survival of all of the rest depends, could live in some kind of symbiosis long into the future. Absent the concerted and prudent action by the government, and sooner rather than later, this land will remain a hotbed of contention and violence with none of the players emerging as winners...

[@dailypresentation]

the govt of Kenya should not just sit on the fence . an alternative dispute resolution should be looked forward into

[@EDWINKISIERO]

the problem is security intended for protecting our land is being used for stupid selfish purposes,wanafaa kuhama

[@crazykb100]

Soldier man is brain washed and he thinks very negatively of the locals.. he needs to come down 😮

[@RichardMathii]

Very embarrassing for the government, foreigner's own such huge parcels of land and locals are suffering

[@proudmarinemomma827]

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?

[@arigisku]

@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.

[@emmanuelcalpymbella657]

Don't mind them. I don't know what is wrong with us Africans. Sustainability mindset is very far from us.

[@Anonymous-o6q6o]

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

[@kcmcqueen8337]

Talking from a place of a colonialist mind.Why don't boers live in their country and leave us Africans alone?

[@murnyang8381]

@@Anonymous-o6q6ogood one

[@kachiki356]

Community integration is everything. A romanticized 'I dreamed of Africa' where animals are prioritized over humans and local economics won't win. Plays perfectly into 'phonyticians' and poachers. Change tact, and work with the genuine local community for real wealth empowerment...not just the whole social maneno...you'll need to cede ownership to win and keep the space as whole. Totally anti 'chop and sell'...we've got enough car washes and flats and I'm sure none of the pastoralists want this too. Militarizing won't work.

[@zakkan9474]

I wish i could go to Genoa Italy and secure such land as a black man.

[@Blue1Sapphire]

It seems to me that overstocking is the main problem of the herders.

[@emmanuelcalpymbella657]

Absolutely. Too much pressure on the land

[@NgugiKamau-rr3zp]

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.

[@oliverxavier4972]

It's not overstocking. Their land has been stolen and fenced off

[@PatrickMaina-u9l]

What

[@kandaworire]

Probably not. For thousands of years they have lived that way but nowadays can't access the land as some is now private and protected. I don't know the answer but to be honest that way of life and that much ownership of land will always be never far from conflict

[@EngLuoHili]

Climate change has nothing to do with the conflict in these areas. It's simple - unsustainable land use and lack of goodwill from the government. There's money pouring from all directions targeted at everyone's personal interests, so the person with the least amount of money suffers the most and that is the people. Kuki Gallman is just a custodian of that land - she is hodling it for special interest groups. Even she lacks the goodwill to resolve the issues in Laikipia. If today the land in North Easter became green all of a sudden these white settlers would repeat and replicate what they did in 1925, and that is just fact!!

[@nyambegasharon0017]

I have researched, the land is in central Highlands so, yes it's normal for the area to rain and the pokot side not to. That's ancestral land. Yes, they are doing excellent work with the wildlife but mark you the elephants cohabited peacefully with the locals. It's time to end private owned conservations. We should own our own land. The masaai coexist very peacefully with the animals in Masaai Mara reserve

[@nyambegasharon0017]

88000 acres , privately owned by a white setler shouldn't sit right with any African given the level of displacement during colonisation

[@shelleyepelech5211]

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.

[@historian254]

Im Kenyan and Im really glad for kuki gallman she is protecting wildlife from the pastoralists who have destroyed the surrounding landscapes with unsustainable grazing practices.

[@hoverboy]

So you are admitting you are a stupid black person who needs the White saviour to come and help us protect the animals we have lived with and amongst since time immemorial?

[@DuchessKisumu]

Were you paid to post this rubbish?I hope they paid you well but is it worth it. Disgusting.

[@arcticlion7794]

how has life developed so far in countries where all whites have been pushed out after colonialism ? How is life without ecotourism and without jobs in the Congo, West Africa, South Sudan, Burundi or Somalia ?

[@Tall_Dark_Lovely]

This is sad for the citizens😢

[@ceasarj3171]

It's funny how this documentary didn't work as intended despite flowery narration. Shows Kuki as the land thief and bandit!

[@sandezack]

how did it become Kuki Gallman's land.... which it isn't

[@samuelmbugua8414]

That is where the problem is who will do it. The government is not there.16:54