The Battle for Laikipia

Shot in equatorial Kenya over a period of five years, The Battle for Laikipia is a bifurcated documentary epic, with filmmakers Daphne Matziaraki and Peter Murimi embedded with both semi-nomadic Indigenous pastoralists and wealthy white ranchers. Ravaged by drought, the once fertile plains are no more, and the armed ranchers—boasting four generations of history in the region—do not like the pastoralists who have grazed the land for millennia encroaching on their privately owned safari land. The conflict is only exacerbated by contentious elections, as the fight over dwindling resources inevitably spirals toward violence.