The legacy of Japheti Kirillo and the Meru land case, politics

Indeed I was not to be disappointed. The man Japheti Kirillo, took me to a small local pub along the Nkoaranga Road where we sat sipping local ‘mbege’ brew as he narrated his experience in Meru politics. It so happens that between the 1930s and 40s there was a surge in population growth in Meru and this put pressure on land. At the same time many white settlers had set up large and profitable coffee plantations forming a circle around the Meru. This prevented the Meru from expanding down the mountain, and from taking their herds to the low pastures and watering points. Tanganyika, by then was a mandated territory of the British empire after the defeat of Germany at the end of the 2nd WW. It was therefore being administered by the UK under loose supervision of the then League of Nations. Mzee Kirillo went on to explain that the British, in efforts defuse this time bomb, tried to carry out a new policy under which the former tribal authorities were transformed into modern local governments, combining local practices with modern principles.

The legacy of Japheti Kirillo and the Meru land case, politics

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