The World Bank’s Ongoing Battle to Drive Africans Off Their Land

The Honey at the Top

Directed by Dean Puckett (2016)

Film Review

The Honey at the top is about the 30-year battle the indigenous Sengwer are waging against the World Bank and the corrupt Kenya Forest Service (KFS). The latter are trying to evict the Sengwer from their ancestral Embobut Forest. The Kenyan government seeks to use the forest in a lucrative carbon trading scheme.

Although the Kenyan courts have ordered the KFS to desist from harassing Sengwer families, the former continues to launch periodic raids in which they beat up women and the elderly, set fire to their homes and arrest entire families – demanding bribes for their release. The World Bank funds these KFS activities.

Both the World Bank and the KFS declined to be interviewed for this documentary.

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* Carbon trading is the scandal ridden scheme of buying and selling permits and credits to emit carbon dioxide. Despite being a central pillar of the EU’s efforts to slow climate change, there is no real evidence it has successfully reduced carbon emissions .

1 thought on “The World Bank’s Ongoing Battle to Drive Africans Off Their Land

  1. THE WORLD BANK IS DETERMINED TO MURDER THE HUMAN RACE WHEREVER WE MAY BE; JUST TO KEEP THIS PLANET FOR THEMSELVES. IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME, BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS CREATING WARS. I LIVE HERE IN SANDY SPRINGS, GA USA AND I FEEL I AM BEING DRIVEN OUT, BY TRICKLE DOWN POLICIES. I TRULY ASK THE CYBER LAND, HOW MANY PEOPLE TRULY FEEL SAFE??? NOT MANY, UNLESS YOU HAVE MONEY ON A PHYSICAL PLANE TO PAY FOR IT.

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