Title: Land and society in contemporary Africa /
Authors: Downs, R. E.; Reyna, Stephen P.
Publisher: Published for University of New Hampshire by University Press of New England,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Land tenure Africa.; Land reform Africa.
Contents: Introduction / S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs -- A perspective on indigenous land tenure systems and land concentration / John W. Bruce -- Concentration without privatization? Some consequences of changing patterns of rural land control in Africa / Sara Berry -- Urban land concentration / Carol Dickerman -- The Kenyan land tenure reform: Misunderstanding in the public creation of private property / Parker Shipton -- Some consequences of tenure and agrarian reform in Taita, Kenya / Anne Fleuret -- Land scarcity and rights of control in the development of commercial farming in northeastern Tanzania / Donna O. Kerner -- The political economy of land tenure in Somalia / Allan Hoben -- Aspects of the problem of land concentration in Niger / Claude Raynaut -- Money and land tenure as factors in farm size differentiation in Burkina Faso / Mahir Saul -- Land accumulation and local control: the manipulation of symbols and power in Nso, Cameroon / Miriam Goheen -- Land tenure and development in Mauritania: The causes and consequences of legal modernization / John Grayzel -- Competing systems of land tenure in an African plantation society / Pablo B. Eyzaguirre -- Epilogue / Francis Mading Deng