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The transfer of European farms to Africans began in Kenya a few years before independence in 1963. The main principles of the programmes for land transfer and settlement – the two elements cannot be separated – were laid down at that time and continued thereafter. This article describes their history and main features, sets out the principles on which they were based, and explains the financial arrangements. It then analyses the experience of land transfer and settlement, and suggests lessons that may be drawin form this knowledge.

Beschreibung der Entstehungsgeschichte, der wichtigsten Charakteristika sowie der finanziellen Rahmenbedingungen des Landtransfer- und Siedlungsprogramms in Kenia nach seiner Unabhängigkeit, durch das ehemals europäisches Farmland an afrikanische Kleinbauern aufgeteilt wurde. Diskussion der dabei gemachten Erfahrungen im Hinblick auf deren Relevanz für ein mögliches ähnliches Vorgehen in Simbabwe. (DÜI-Hlb)

Kenya has a bad image among those who see themselves as 'friends of the people', who for many years must have thought of it as the land where it is always 1788. But although some years ago we were informed by a reliable authority that 'Africa is ripe for revolution', in Kenya up till now – though who dares predict what will be in the newspapers tomorrow? – it is still not 1789: the revolution has not arrived.