Question

Changes that have taken place in land ownership in Kenya today

Answer 1

• Today women can own their land by inheritance or through land division from their parents/husbands
• Children have the right to own the land unlike olden time when they could not
• Today land ownership is evidenced by a tittle deed or land allotment letter issued by the government
• Today some land is set apart by government for public use like establishment of game park.
• Land can be transferred/converted to another form of assets
• There is individual ownership of land from communal apart from nomadic areas where there is still communal land ownership
• Due to individual land ownership, it has contributed to some cases of landless to some people which was not the case in African Traditional times
• Today one can buy a land and live a place of his/her choice and not in ancestral land