They may not have had any property rights all these years- who is going to invest in cultivating and seeding land they don’t own, that can be taken at a moment’s notice, or is already owned by the government and access to it is just a matter of bribery?
You are probably right-I wasn’t really thinking about the fact that Kenya is pretty much a 3d world country-the sensible notion of good fences making good neighbors likely doesn’t apply...