Nairobi, Nov. 9 -- Of all land experts in Kenya, Michael Aronson was in a class of his own - and when he died last week, he went with many tales about land in the country.
Unknown to many, he was the vice chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land, which came to be known as the Ndung'u Commission.
In his early years, Mr Aronson oversaw the transfer of land from white settlers to indigenous Kenyans and stayed on as a land registrar working in various districts and with many personalities.
The last time we meet in a home for the elderly in Muthaiga, where he spent his final years, we spent hours as he engaged me on the history of lands and settlements in Kenya. Aronson was a walking library -...