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How colonial era wiped out Kenya’s balance of nature
Mau Forest. The colonial system that saw locals cede their settlements to create the white highlands, was the beginning of the country losing its balance of nature , which had been perfected by generations of habitat-sensive herders and farmers. FILE PHOTO | NMG
I have often argued that before the advent of colonialism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, there was a natural balance between the elements of nature, which presaged a relatively predictable climatic environment. A scientific article published recently seems to support this view.
The article published on 29 August 2018 in “Nature”, International Journal of Science, entitled “Ancient Herders Enriched and Restructured African Grasslands” is a study of five pastoral neolithic sites in southern Kenya (radio-carbon dated to between 3,700 and 1,550 calibrated years before present).
