Resettlement in White Highlands Going Well; Agricultural Income Increased - Black African settlers are proving they can farm successfully here in the old White Highlands of Kenya, once a bastion and symbol of white supremacy in Africa. Total agricultural income here has increased over the past five years - the more remarkable when it is considered that more than one sixth of the land formerly worked as large plantations by white settlers has been given to black settlers. Some 30,000 African farmers have been resettled on 1,000 European farms totaling more than 1 million acres in the highlands. Their difficulties have been enormous. Inexperience, incompetence, corruption and politics have hampered the program - but the black farmers, on the whole, have made a go of it. This constitutes one of the most promising and hopeful recent developments in all of Africa. Their success here is dramatic, for the White Highlands were once closed to African freeholders...

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