Land

Land is the most important asset in the African setting or should i say to me..with land one fills secure in the sense that one can build a house and stop renting a house more so it can also act a means of security in many areas for example if one wants to secure a loan from a bank,it can also act as a "shamba" as we call it were one gets to grow food for sell and for consumption within the household and still bring in income to the said owner.As we say in Kenya Land does not fluctuate but rather appreciate with each new day that goes by.

I have seen brothers Huck each other to death because of land,i have seen sons kill there own father and families feuds just because of land.From my own experience i watched in dismay as my father and my uncle battled each other to court just because of a land that my dad had inherited from his parents.As culture have it that the male children in a house hold should each be given there own land by there parents when they become of age meaning when they marry and start having there own families,as for the girl child she does not inherit land from her parents since it is assumed that she will get married and will automatically get land from her husband's family unless on occasions where by there is no male child within that house hold and the parents decide to divide the land to there daughters which is quite rare in the African setting.

It is said that the more acres of land one has the more rich that particular house hold is perceived to be.After the post election scammishes here in Kenya many people were left without land who were also refereed to as the internal displaced persons since they were forced out of there land by the different ethnic tribes in the area that they had settled in.Till now this people are still unsettled since they have no land to settle in thus prompting them to live in camps and depend on donations and well wishers.The government is trying to come up with ways to settle the IDPs three years after the election.That is how important land is to me and to the African culture and more so to Kenya.