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PREMIUM Magadi: The town with a gate—and a colonial lease Kenya never broke Today, Magadi is not really a town, it is an extraction camp disguised as a town. Weekly Review Just now Listen

PREMIUM Magadi: The town with a gate—and a colonial lease Kenya never broke Today, Magadi is not really a town, it is an extraction camp disguised as a town. Weekly Review Just now Listen

By GhanaSummary NewsroomKenya

Not because the colonial government wanted to establish a flourishing town, but because the lake contained a mineral needed by British factories.

It remained a company settlement because the colonial government wanted soda ash, not an industrialised Kajiado.

How can an independent African country continue to live under a colonial promise of “uninterrupted rights”?

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