The Spectator, November 2nd, 2002
Wild life
Laikipia
I got a sense of what General Custer felt like at Little Bighorn when the Samburu invaded the farm where I live this month. Even today they determine wealth in terms of cattle, suffering from an obsession anthropologists call `udder madness'. Meanwhile, the human population is also increasing. Each dry season, the Samburu graze their pastures down to the roots and the sun-blasted land swirls with dust devils. Inevitably, our neighbours turn their ochre-- adorned faces to the big ranches of Laikipia where the grass is plentiful and the elephants are nearly as numerous as th...
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