Abstract
Abstract Although promises of tenure security have been used to justify land privatization, land reform has rarely benefitted the pastoral inhabitants of the East African rangelands. Pastoralists lose land due to corruption and illicit allocations at the moment of enclosure and subdivision of rangelands, as well as through land sales after they have received land titles. This article examines how the process of pastoralist land sales following titling occurs along the major road through Kajiado County, Kenya, along which land values have risen. Examining case studies of sales by members of various Maasai territorial sections, the article discusses how financial need as well as inheritance dynamics stimulate land sales.
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