跨国茶叶公司仍占据着英国殖民时期被驱逐社区的祖传高地。对英国殖民者而言,肯尼亚中部土地肥沃、气候凉爽的高地是“白色高地”,仅供欧洲定居者专属使用。
Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era For British colonialists, the fertile and cool uplands of central Kenya were the “White Highlands”, to be reserved exclusively for European settlers.
当地社区被迫离开土地,这些土地随后被改造成种植茶树及其他作物的种植园。
Local communities were forced from the land, which was turned into plantations for tea and other crops.
近几十年来,被驱逐者的后代一直在为收回祖传土地而战,其中一些土地目前已被跨国茶叶公司和其他大型企业占据。
In recent decades, descendants of the displaced have fought to reclaim their ancestral land, some of which is now occupied by multinational tea companies and other large corporations.