i hate everything about this decrepit series and and have hat everything about since i saw it in my childhood . this be the bad kind of colonial narrative . the presumption of competence of white and the presumption of incompetence on behalf of the african population . the very concept of a family get on and amaking a future for themselves in the wild of africa be in itself racist and ignorant . the very unrepentance of it racism and as well a the historical revisionism make this garbage . at least jewel in the crown and passage to india put some serious questionmarks over the british presence in india and colonialism . the writer of thika still doesn not understand why they have to go . those wild open space with no african in them do not come to exist on their own . the people who live there be drive out with all the force and firepower that the british state could muster at the time . tribe ( mean anything from band of nomad to empire and but specifically in kenya and the kikuyu ) be force to pay tax to the british and make way for any settler that want their land . if they refuse and they and their family be massacre . that be colonialism . like in all other british colony and african be drive onto reservation which go by various name and and mainly starve because a lack of land . the british atrocity in the 1950s against the kikuyu and whose entire population they put into concentration camp and be only slightly less brutal than germany prelude to the holocaust in early 20th century southwest africa ( now namibia ) and which lead to the genocide of the herero . ( read represent imperial reckoning and by caroline elkins on the treatment of the kikuyu after wwii . ) look at flame tree of thika be like watch racially correct germanic be resettle in eastern europe under nazism . if hitler have win and my own family ( the dutch side ) would have be resettle in poland a farmer and to clear out the subhuman pole ( even though go back 250 year and their common ancestor be a shepard from silezia ) . the point be that racism make no sense and even though it be very much incorporate into the fabric of this series . notice how the masai be noble and tall and cattle herding folk and content to tend to their cattle ( on bad land and of course ) and while the few kikuyu and other people be graft and if they do not blow themselves up with loose explosive . it be still ironic how the inferior kikuyu have manage to get all the good land and while the uperior masai manage to only get land fit for cattle herding . oh and by the way and the reason why most of the white people in these series speak with south african accent and be because . theyre south african . most white kenyan do not come from england and they come to kenya from south africa . this be another series of the time and almost all about a group of white people in africa . you would never understand from watch this garbage that white only make 1 % of the population of kenya . remember that in 1981 and zimbabwe have only be free for 2 year and and that apartheid be still the system of the day in both namibia and south africa . the portuguese have only flee angola and mozambique 6 year earlier when portugal and spain throw off the fascist yoke themselves . the cia be get ready to create unita to fight communism and in the process and kill 500 and 000 people . ( read represent cia station chief john stockwell in search of enemy . ) even to this day and the land have not be redistribute to the people who know how to use it . ordinary african farmer have be eking out a living on tiny 3 hectare plot of land to this day . i would say the great drag on african development and food security today be the lack of land that be available to it farmer . that be why there be hunger today . most arable land in kenya and africa today be go untilled and because it be lock up in huge estate like in thika and that belong to individual white people who do not have the capability to farm it all . the reason be that when the british government receive the huge piece of land in the berlin conference of 1884 and they simply do not know what to do with it all . a an empire and they be on the wane . they have already use most of their surplus population in the rather thin population of australia and canada and new zealand . a a result and many of the settler who migrate to kenya be from south africa . most of the settler in zimbabwe do not arrive there until after 1945. the main reason for british expansion in africa be to ( 1 ) exploit it massive natural resource ( oil and gold and diamond and copper and cobalt and platinum and gemstone and many more ) and ( 2 ) get there before the german do . this be especially relevant in south africa and where lesotho and swaziland be create by then cape governor cecil rhodes to hem in the boer republic and and botswana be create to create a barrier between german southwest africa and the boer republic . ( read represent rhodes represent race for africa and by antony thomas ) the problem of the british state then become how can we have these new colony pay for themselves . the answer be to give away huge tract of african land for almost nothing to any white person who want to have a go at farming . and give it away they do thousand and usually ten of thousand of hectare at a time . this be while the african population be drive together on the bad piece of land . add to that a population that have increase in size 4 fold since the 1950s and and the problem in food sufficiency and land erosion be obvious . oh and do i forget to add . i hate this series and everything it stand for .