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Strangers, Spirits, and Land Reforms: Conflicts about Land in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe

Spierenburg, Marja·2004·BRILL eBooks
DOI 10.1163/9789047414087
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This book describes efforts by the Zimbabwean government to enforce land reforms on African farmers in northern Zimbabwe. These efforts compounded rather than alleviated the problem of land scarcity for black small-scale farmers, a problem government now allegedly seeks to redress through invasions of white-owned farms. The book describes the similarities between the post-Independence land reforms and those attempted by the Rhodesian regime. The land reforms in Dande rendered a considerable number of farmers officially landless. The book describes the resulting internal conflicts over land within the communities in Dande as well as the more concerted forms of resistance of these communities vis-a-vis the state. Attention is also given to the role the spirit mediums of the royal ancestors (Mhondoro) played in this resistance.

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Authors
Spierenburg, M.
Corresponding author
Spierenburg, Marja
ORCID
Spierenburg, Marja
Venue
BRILL eBooks
Publisher
BRILL
Published
2004-01-01
DOI
10.1163/9789047414087
OpenAlex
W4233338529
Cited by
87
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.09
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African studies and sociopolitical issues
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Keywords
land reform, land scarcity, smallholder farmers, land invasions, landless farmers, land disputes, spirit mediums, ancestral spirits

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