Let's us all then flush our titles down the toilet....

Kuki Gallmann shot in the stomach by raiders. Airlifted to Aha Khan hospital

Christine Mungai vs Kuki Gallman
She's gone ballistic after an article reported in the Guardian - Who Shot Kuki Gallman?



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You know, I was going to leave it alone. I really was. But this story has got me shook.
This story is so steeped in neocolonial tropes it's almost astounding that @guardian's editors didn't catch it

1. The lack of historicity. "White settlers came to [Laikipia] to farm wheat and raise cattle during the first half of the 20th century"
The underlying premise is that this land was terra nullis. An empty, unclaimed vastness waiting for someone to put it to good use
No, @t_mcconnell. Laikipia had owners, pushed out by the gun. Firepower and coercion made it the emptiness beloved by white settlers

"The land is home to elephants and rhinos, giraffes, zebras and antelopes, wild dogs, bat-eared foxes and lions." See? Again, no people.
The white savior. Again and always.
Kuki Gallmann, "committed to protecting the environment and its wildlife" is up against "impoverished local men". Look at that. The natives!
3. (I forgot to continue numbering)...the erasure of Kenyan people and voices. Kuki Gallmann is quoted nearly 20 times. One Kenyan quoted.

(At first I was angry that these kind of massive editorial holes still have to be pointed out in 2017. But now I am just bored)
(Is bored the right word? I mean this: 🙄. Defending your humanity makes me feel like that. This conversation is uninspiring, even to me)
But let us carry on.
"“Since many, many years my aim is to try to prove that people and environment can survive together, you have to have a balance,” Kuki says.
What a revelation. If it wasn't for "the conservationists", we would never have known that. Right, guys?
4. When she talks about how she came to own an 88,000 acre ranch in Laikipia: "I totally and utterly fell in love with Ol Ari Nyiro..."
" ...and I felt – and it’s irrational and difficult to explain -- that I had come home and there was a reason for me to be there." 🙄🙄🙄
She had come home. HOME. And there was a reason. A REASON.

Isn't it interesting how there are wonderful empty places in this beautiful Kenya waiting for someone to fall in love with them?
That you can land in far-off country with a pile of luggage shipped in from Venice, and your love gets you an 88,000 acre ranch?
But anyway fam, there's a reason for this.

5. Some ranches have closed and some owners are considering selling, but others, among them Gallmann, are hunkering down, the article says.
"They are going to get tired of it. I know I will outlast them. There is no doubt in my mind," says Gallmann.
"They" is the impoverished local Pokot militia encroaching on "the environment". They will get tired. Kuki Gallmann will outlast them.
Of course they will get tired, Ms Gallmann. They are poor, impoverished and local, after all. They children will hunger and thirst.
*Their* children, I mean. They will turn against each other. They will run out of ammunition. Politics will change. They will scatter.

In a way, you are right. They *will* get tired.
And there you are, waiting for "them" to scatter, to hunger, to thirst, to turn against each other and just go away. To disappear.
Or at least to go back to being poor, local and impoverished, but quietly. QUIETLY.
I want to go on, but I can't. This feeling > 🙄, has been replaced by grief.
The grief of knowing that someone is waiting for our death, our quietness, our hunger and thirst and confusion.
The End.

This reads like a horror story. Never knew that it was this bad. Surely this has nothing to do with "nyasi na ukame".

http://www.the-star.co.k...rm-in-laikipia_c1498811

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That jinga Laikipia ODM Mpig has been arrested. He should be made a very good example.NKT!!

The Pokot remind me of the South Sudanese.

Nothing will come out of South Sudan, not until the current crop of human beings is extint. Jews should have occupied that land which is so endowed with resources (water, oil, pasture, rainfall) and hordes of savages.

The Pokot people are hurtling in the same direction. They don't sound like a people who can coexist with neighbours. As of now, there's a silent peace pact between them and the Samburu, hence the apparent collaboration in these invasions of white farms. Even though the sheer size of the farms is an indignity by itself, I do not think relapsing to the 16th century savage era will solve anything.

Today, Laikipia, Samburu, Baringo and parts of Elgeyo Marakwet are war zones. Happening just when they are being opened with asphalt roads and other infrstructure.......Very unfortunate.

Do you also know that GG is the dad of a certain mpig in baringo?

What freedom fighters? Would you term akamba invading Kiambu and killing the kiambuans freedom fighters? That is what pokot are doing in laikipia. They have migrated from Baringo to laikipia and are killing everyone from smallholder farmers to ranchers with abandon. They must be stopped.

And as @simonkabz has said they have been fighting everyone....marakwets to the west, turkana to the north, samburu to the east, ilchamus and tugens to the south, and now kikuyus and white farmers in laikipia to the south east. They have moved from B aringo and are now in rumuruti. Soon they might attack ndaragwa, kieni and nyeri having moved 300km from their homeland.

If there is anyone who should be fighting it is the maasai whose fore fathers signed that land agreement with mzungu. But you cant have samburus and pokots invading from the neighbouring districts in the north and west respectively and killing maasai group ranch owners, whites and okuyo farmers. Pokots should remain in their territory in baringo and west pokot, and samburus in samburu district. If we cannot allow luhyas or nandi to invade kisumu county, then we must not allow pokots and samburu to invade laikipia.

Leaders and elders from Pokot, Samburu and these gun-toting communities should look at what happened with Mungiki, Sabaot Land Defence and Mombasa Republican Council when their attacks reached terror levels and advice their irrational young men to completely drop the way of the gun or to stick to small time robberies of a few goats and while at it keep that very far up north ...cause if they keep this up, it will reach critical mass, and then history will repeat itself.