What was the outcome of the division of the Massailand
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Explanation:
Most of the world's indigenous or cultural communities live on land to which they do not have legal title. Although many legal systems recognize forms of `customary,' `aboriginal,' or `traditional' rights based on long residence and membership in a given community, they often compete with property rights held under individual title or by the State. Under `customary law,' rights over land tend to be inclusive (many people `included' as right holders), ambiguous (different rights overlap), and negotiable (rights specified through the agency of social process). But customary land tenure, in all its flexibility, seems to lack the certainty brought about by formal land registration. Maasai, for instance, have a clear notion of e-rishata or division or separation that constitutes a boundary, but their borders are zones more than lines. Individuals and families, whose rights are derived from the community, mingle together as they use land in common, with access being subject to negotiation and potential conflict.
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Before colonial times, Maasailand stretched over a vast area from north Kenya to the steppes of northern Tanzania. In the late nineteenth century, European imperial powers scrambled for territorial possessions in Africa, slicing up the region into different colonies. In 1885, Maasailand was cut into half with an international boundary between British Kenya and German Tanganyika.