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.

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!!!

Verrrry well done documentary👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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

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.

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

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

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 🇮🇹

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?

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.

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.

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

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

A great work of art a masterpiece

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You think.

Who is paying for the military sevirity?

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

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!

Overgrazing is a big problem for ignorant herders. Do they even own the land? Don't they use the public land and make a profit with their cows but pay no land use fee or taxes. These lawbreakers should be working with the land owner to buy a limited use permit but they just act like they are entitled to take whatever they want. The wild animals having good land is not the question. If these ignorant herders had their way there would be no wild animals left. How do you educate these herders?