‘They raped our country’: documentary follows Kenyans’ fight for restitution over stolen land

Much of the land taken during the colonial era has remained with the political elite and foreign companies occupying huge tea plantations. Photograph: Andrew H Brown

For British colonialists, the fertile and cool uplands of central Kenya were the “White Highlands”, to be reserved exclusively for European settlers. Local communities were forced from the land, which was turned into plantations for tea and other crops.

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.