• The Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) enjoins herself in the celebrations to hail the landmark ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights Ruling on the Endorois Community complaints against the Kenya Government violation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Government of Kenya violated the Charter by forcibly removing the Endorois from their ancestral lands around Lake Bogoria, without prior consultations, adequate and effective compensation. It symbolizes the fact that correctly empowered communities will have a better chance of breaking the chains of the embedded landlord-State allegiances which limits communities’ well-being. This precedent-setting ruling in favour of the Endorois community illustrates that with control over their own community land and resources, they will be enabled to ensure long-term occupancy and sustainable utilization of these resources. The ruling will remain a landmark in the efforts to promote a community based approach, working in an incremental manner, and on an area by area basis, which will enhance the tackling of the rights and governance grievances which embrace much of the public land estate, including existing and future protected areas. Taking into account the expected implementation of the recommendations of the African Commission, the experience of the Endorois case ruling is an innovative community based approach to land rights reform. Thus, we in the land sector do not find it fanciful to envision a thriving future Kenya where elected Community Land Boards will govern and regulate use and management of collectively owned resources including pasturelands and protected forests and reserves, under the oversight of national legislated body and technical agencies.