FARMING IN KENYA
WE BUILI A COUNTRY, Dy J. F. Lipscomb; Faber and Faber, English price 15/-. ". HE country is Kenya; the author is a man who has spent 35 years in land development and farming there; the book is the story of some of that development, its interruption by the secret society in the Kikuyu tribe known as Mau Mau, and an appeal on behalf of the white settlers of the "European Highlands." Mr Lipscomb argues strongly that a strict measure of European control over this territory is necessary to safeguard the land from destruction by desiccation and mis-use. He rejects the notion of independence; fe insists that the future welfare of Africans ‘| 'and European settlers alike rests on the adoption of the economic system of the West, under which all the most capable and energetic Africans could become small "capitalists" and the rest wageearners in a welfare state. Instead of the 600,000 peasant subsistence landowners the aim should be about 200,000 small-holders on the same area, while the rest would be absorbed partly in agricultural employment and partly in industry and urban employment. This is a point of view we have not heard much about. It is the opinion of a man with very wide experience in the administration as well as the practice of
land development in Kenya
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 14
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223FARMING IN KENYA New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 14
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