Negotiating Property in Africa
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How do people vindicate, assert, and secure claims to land? What at the outset might seem a straightforward question soon gets quite complicated when we realize that land tenure is a field where social and political relations are multifarious, overlapping, and competing. This collection of essays by prominent Africanists examines the negotiations and tactical and strategic maneuvers that Africans employ to secure their claims to land. The contributors depict a broad array of processes through which Africans pursue their interests. These range from relatively low levels of tension where people seek to preempt rival claims through assertion of "tradition" to open conflicts and disputes expressed formally in courts and other legal institutions. By placing land tenure at the center of social relations in Africa, Juul and Lund underscore the inherent dynamism of African societies. African efforts to consolidate claims to land provide key windows through which we can see ongoing constructions and transformations of social relations within African societies. Anyone interested in understanding a vital aspect of African lives will find this collection absorbing and essential.
AcknowledgementsForeword1Negotiating Property in Africa: Introduction12Negotiating Property Institutions: On the Symbiosis of Property and Authority in Africa113The Limits of Negotiability: Security, Equity and Class Formation in Africa's Land Systems454Legislating Negotiability: Tenure Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa675The Everyday Politics of Rent-Seeking: Land Allocation on the Outskirts of Kumase, Ghana1076Trajectories of the Politicisation of Land Issues: Case Studies from Benin1357The Management of Pastoral Resources in the West African Sahel: Negotiating Water and Pastures in Eastern Niger and Northern Burkina Faso1578Post-Drought Migration and the Quest for Recognition: Asserting and Securing Claims among Fulani Pastoralists in Northern Senegal1859The Articulation of Modes of Belonging: Competing Land Claims in Zimbabwe's Northwest211Afterword247Index251List of Contributors257
