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Title

Land in the struggles for citizenship in Africa / edited by Sam Moyo, Dzodzi Tsikata, Yakham Diop = Le foncier dans les luttes pour la citoyenneté en Afrique / sous la direction de Sam Moyo, Dzodzi Tsikata, Yakham Diop.

Publication

Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Moyo, Sam
• Tsikata, Dzodzi
• Diop, Yakham
• Codesria issuing body.

Description

ix, 372 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land tenure interests of women, pastoralists, youth and indigenous people. Several of these longstanding and emerging issues in land tenure include the role of the state in land tenure reforms; urban land questions, the nature of land struggles and improvements; and, the impact of land tenure developments on particular social groups and countries. An overarching concern is the extent to which land rights are being commodified, through the conversion of land held under customary tenure systems into marketised systems. The consequences of this include growing land concentration, land tenure insecurities, diminishing access to land by various sections of society, including the poor, women and less dominant ethno-religious groups. This volume brings together different studies on Africa's land questions exploring emerging land issues on the continent in terms of the wider questions of development, citizenship, and democratisation. The chapters discuss the land question through a variety of themes. Some focus on the agrarian aspects of the land questions, while others elucidate the urban dimensions of the land question.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

• Foncier dans les luttes pour la citoyenneté en Afrique
• Foncier dans les luttes pour la citoyenneté en Afrique

Subject

• Land tenure > Africa
• Land use, Rural > Africa
• Land use, Urban > Africa
• Land tenure
• Land use, Rural
• Land use, Urban
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes essays in English and French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introduction : Africa's diverse and changing land questions / Sam Moyo, Dzodzi Tsikata and Yakham Diop -- I. Migration, citizenship and identities = Migration, citoyennete et identites -- 2. Environmental degradation, land shortage and identity conflicts on the jos Plateau in Nigeria / Victor A.O. Adetula -- 3. Logiques d'heritages et superposition de droits : conflits de pratiques dans l'Afrique contemporaine le "legitime" contre le "legal"? / Abderrahmane Ngaide -- 4. Urban land and citizenship struggles in Nigeria : an analysis of access from 1979 to date / Yomi Oruwari and Opuenebo Owei -- 5. Gender and land dynamics in the Gambia : the struggle for citizenship, democracy calling for the agency of the poor / Isatou Touray -- II. Continuities and changes in the land question : the development of land markets, urbanisation and land tenure reforms = Continuites et changements de la question fonciere : le developpement des marches fonciers, urbanisation et reformes foncieres --^
• 6. Emerging land rental markets and transaction costs in rural Ethiopia / Bezabih Emana and Assefa Seyoum -- 7. Reforme agraire et valeur economique de la terre au Burkina / Abdoulaye Zonon -- 8. Rural women farmers' access to farmland market transactions in Nigeria / Chimaraoke Otutubikey Izugbara -- 9. Dynamiques foncieres autour des villes du centre Benin : cas de Parakou, Tchaourou, Glazoue et Dassa-Zoume / Ramanou Aboudou and Innocent K. Akobi -- III. Land struggles, collective action and the establishment of land claims = Luttes pour la terre, action collective et etablissement des revendications territoriales -- 10. Electing land questions : a methodological discussion with reference to Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Shackdweller Movement / Rajeev Patel -- 11. Land tenure arrangements, migrant labour and land struggles in rural Cameroon / Francis Menjo Baye and Sunday A. Khan --^
• 12. Appropriation of land for housing and african immigrant entrepreneurship in the city of Pointe-Noire (Congo-Brazzaville) / Gabriel Tati.

ISBN

• 9782869786363
• 2869786360

OCLC

• 936211029
• SCSB-11307783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library