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Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding: Power, Wealth, and Meaning
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Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of its nations—for instance Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria—encompass within their borders a full spectrum from range land or desert with fewer than five per square kilometre to better-watered settlements of over 500 per square kilometre, where domestic groups have space for little more than kitchen gardens.
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“Many of the supposed central tenets of African land tenure, such as the idea of communal tenure, the hierarchy of recognized interests in land (ownership, usufructory rights and so on), or the place of chiefs and elders, have been shown to have been largely created and sustained by colonial policy and passed on to post-colonial states (Okoth-Ogendo 1989; Berry 1992, 1993, 2000; Shipton and Goheen”
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- Authors
- Shipton, P., & Goheen, M.
- Venue
- Africa
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1992-07
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 307-325
- ISSN
- 0001-9720
- 1750-0184
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 106
- Language
- en
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