This is a
summary to refer to in an attempt to avoid far too long blog posts and it’s help
for anyone writing about Loliondo. By necessity this means that important
aspects may have been left out. I’ve tried to include what’s most important to understand
the current situation. Please contact me for further details, or if you think
I’ve left out anything essential.
Notice that this
summary is about the illegal and brutal land alienation for a “game reserve” in
Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District. Ngorongoro Division/Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) where the Tanzanian government use cruel
restrictions and illegal defunding of social services to make the Maasai
relocate to other people’s land far away is ANOTHER ISSUE, even if
closely related in many ways. The cruel and stupid Msomera publicity stunt is NOT
about the Maasai of Loliondo. I must soon write another blog post about NCA.
The criminal
is the Tanzanian government that´s aided and abetted by investors, donors, and
conservation organisations. Notably, OBC from Dubai have lobbied for the brutal
and lawless creation of an illegal “game reserve”in Loliondo. The Germans and
Frankfurt Zoological Society have a long history of working against Maasai land
rights and recently very openly and shamelessly funded and facilitated a now rejected
draft district land use plan to legitimize and extend the crime. Though the
brutal land alienation drive is not restricted to Loliondo, or Ngorongoro District,
or to the Maasai, but all rural Tanzanians with land that’s of interest to
tourism are under serious threat, while the Germans boast about being the biggest
bilateral donors to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. The land
alienation drive has been going on for decades, but with the current government
of Samia Suluhu Hassan, that’s running amok with a greedy and violent tourism
cult, it’s worse than ever. Everyone considering spending tourism money in
Tanzania seriously needs to consider what they are encouraging.
I’ve got
almost all information about the early days from Navaya ole Ndaskoi and that
from later years from hundreds of different people, most of whom would sadly not
like to be mentioned at all.
“The
minister” refers to the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism.
Contents:
Mwinyi
Mkapa
Kikwete
Magufuli
Samia
