The politics of land reform in Africa : from communal tenure to free markets / Ambreena Manji.

By:

Manji, Ambreena S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Zed, 2006.Description: 149 p. ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1842774956 (pbk.)
9781842774953 (pbk.)
1842774948 (hbk.)
9781842774946 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

Land reform -- Africa

DDC classification:

333.316 MAN 23 011936

LOC classification:

HD1333.A35 M36 2006

Contents:

Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion.

Summary: This book examines the trend in Africa today to replace communal forms of customary tenure with Western-type private land tenure arrangements. These are markets in land that treat it as a commodity like any other, and forms of rural credit involving land as collateral. The author develops an aetiology of the main actors in this historic process which is already having huge human consequences. It is likely, if more widely implemented, to transform the face of African rural society towards landlessness, forced migration to big city slums, and rising inequality.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi	333.316 MAN 011936 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011936

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion
Creating a Network of Land Law Reform * The Impetus for Land Reform * Paying for Law: International Financial Institutions * Making Law: The Role of Technical Legal Consultants * Contesting Law? Civil Society Groups * Using Law: Commercial Lenders and the African Judiciary * Conclusion.

This book examines the trend in Africa today to replace communal forms of customary tenure with Western-type private land tenure arrangements. These are markets in land that treat it as a commodity like any other, and forms of rural credit involving land as collateral. The author develops an aetiology of the main actors in this historic process which is already having huge human consequences. It is likely, if more widely implemented, to transform the face of African rural society towards landlessness, forced migration to big city slums, and rising inequality.

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