num_pages: 373
description: While serving with the British colonial government in Uganda beginning in 1951, geographer West (Cambridge U.) developed an interest in African land tenure and in the needs, problems, and potentials for merging and updating system of customary and imposed law. Here he explores the socio-political and economic relations between African populations and their land resources; the historical influences operating on those relationships through pre-colonial migrations and conflicts, alien settlement, colonial land policies, population growth, urbanization, market opportunities, and environmental degradation; and the adjustment, regulation, and harmonizing of those relationships through changing tenurial institutions and the progressive adoption of accommodating land policies. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: On African Land Holding: A Review of Tenurial Change and Land Policies in Anglophone Africa
titlecomplete: On African Land Holding: A Review of Tenurial Change and Land Policies in Anglophone Africa (Studies in African Economic and Social Development, V. 16)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr