Pluralism and Development: Studies in Access to Property in Africa
Print ISBN: 9780702195327
Print ISBN: 9780702195327
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Year Published:
2012
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1st Edition
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Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
This title comprises a collection of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cape Town in 2010, which consider how development in Africa may best be achieved by concentrating on access to property from a pluralist perspective, with emphasis on land, the most important economic resource.
Content
Access to property in Africa: An introductory survey - Thomas Bennett and Hanri Mostert
Absolute ownership and legal pluralism in Roman law: Two arguments - Helen Scott
Legal pluralism in Africa: The implications of state recognition of customary laws illustrated from the field of land law - Gordon Woodman
Legal pluralism and access to land in Nigeria - Enyinna Nwauche
The changing dynamics of customary land tenure: Women’s access to and control over land in Botswana - Anne Griffiths
Taking the gap – ‘Living law land grabbing’ in the context of customary succession laws in Southern Africa - Chuma Himonga
Securing women’s property inheritance in the context of plurality: Negotiations of law and authority in Mbuzini customary courts and beyond - Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Contested power and apartheid tribal boundaries: The implications of ‘living customary law’ for indigenous accountability mechanisms - Aninka Claassens
Lost in translation: Family title in Fingo Village, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape - Rosalie Kingwill
Land information as a tool for effective land administration and development - Gerrit Pienaar
Legal pluralism – The investor’s view - Johann Schiller
Promises of future performance and informal-sector transfers of personal property: The example of Anglophone Cameroon - Claire Moore Dickerson
Indigenous-law land rights: Constitutional imperatives and proprietary paradoxes - Anne Pope
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