Abstract
THE memorandum issued by the Colonial Office on the position in Kenya in relation to the leasing of lands in native occupation on native reserves for mining purposes cannot be regarded as satisfactory. It affords no guarantee that the more objectionable consequences of the amendment of the Ordinance will not ensue. For example, while admitting that “the matter of immediate importance is to ensure that any individual native … shall receive compensation and an alternative piece of ground on which he may live and work in proximity to his market”, it states that the Governor “does not contemplate any difficulty in providing individual dispossessed natives with land”. But when the amendment was introduced, and also when it was discussed in the House of Commons, it was stated definitely that the reason for payment of a money compensation was that land could not be provided for all the natives who, it was anticipated, would be dispossessed. Nothing is said of the terms of tenure of the land on which the dispossessed natives will be settled, a matter of the first importance in tribal organisation, as has already been pointed out in NATURE.
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Gold in Kenya and Native Reserves. Nature 131, 123–124 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131123b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131123b0