Britain’s King Charles III began a four-day visit to Kenya on Tuesday. Communities in western Kenya are using it as an opportunity to press their case for compensation for injustices they suffered when the country was under British rule.
The colonial administration took hundreds of square kilometres of land that communities in western Kenya had lived on for generations and handed it to British settlers.
Much of it became tea plantations that today belong to multinational companies and are worth billions of euros.
"The money which is obtained here is being siphoned out of this country to foreigners ... who are enjoying the fruits of our Kipsigi soil," said Joel Kimetto, an activist for the Kipsigi indigenous group.
"King Charles needs to know that we are still suffering. He needs to compensate us for the losses we have suffered," added Kibore Cheruyiot Ngasura, a local who was evicted from the land to a detention camp during Britain's colonial rule.
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