‘The Battle for Laikipia’ Review: How the Climate Crisis Is Reawakening Tensions in a Kenya Community
variety.comMurtada Elfadl “The Battle for Laikipia” offers a prescient perspective by focusing on the communities that are living with the consequences of climate change right now: the ranchers and pastoralists of Laikipia, located on the equator in Kenya.
These people, their cattle, their farms — their means of life — have been dealing with drought. Over a period of approximately two years, the documentary’s directors Daphne Matziaraki and Peter Murimi show how climate change can directly resurface tensions that have been kept at bay for generations.
When resources dwindle, battles arise. The framework for the feature is how colonialism still manages to impact indigenous people many years after their nations were granted independence.
Many Brits migrated to Kenya during the time of the empire; their descendants still live there and own much of the land in Laikipia.
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