THE FORA OF PUBLIC ACTION IN KENYA: FROM THE ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL LAND POLICY TO ITS POLITICIZATION
Résumé
As Ambreena Manji stresses out in a recently published article, the land laws (namely, the Land Act, the Land Registration
Act and the NLC Act of 2012) “seemed to be almost entirely disconnected from the NLP”.13 Moreover, instead of clarifying
the mandate of the NLC, the laws left the contentious issues unaddressed. This leaves a grey zone regarding the definition
of whose institution holds the power to manage and allocate public land. Notwithstanding the irresistible grass-root reform
movement, appealing many sectors of Kenyan society and almost unanimously supported by development partners, the
landed oligarchy managed to hold a solid grip on the Kenyan political system, manifesting itself only when necessary to tilt
the balance in its favor.
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