The githaka was not just land. It was identity, inheritance, and power. A githaka was a tract held by a lineage group, cleared by ancestors, passed down through generations. You belonged to the land and the land belonged to you. When the British declared the highlands Crown Land and gave it to settlers, they did not just steal property. They severed the relationship between Kikuyu and their past. The land question in Kenya begins here: with the theft of the githaka. Mau Mau was an attempt to take it back. Independence promised restitution. Sixty years later, the wound is still open.