The Kenyan coast carries a title deed older than the nation itself, signed in Arabic script between the Sultan and the British Crown without bothering to ask the Mijikenda who had lived there since the first mango tree took root. Coastal land encapsulates the central colonial fiction: that boundaries drawn in Lisbon or London could create ownership in Mombasa. This trail explores how 99-year leases became perpetual claims, and why geography that saw the world's oldest trade routes became the newest court cases.
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