Essays in African land law
By: Robert Home (editor)
Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781920538002; 9789205380025
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Real property; Customary law; Rule of law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Perceptions of legal and geographical clarity : defining international land boundaries in Africa / John W. Donaldson; title: Towards the pro-poor land law in Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Home; title: International law and land rights in Africa : the shift from states' territorial possessions to indigenous peoples' ownership rights / Jeremie Gilbert and Valerie Couillard; title: Indigenous peoples and ancestral lands : implications of the Bakweri case in Cameroon / Ambe J Njoh; title: Not just another 'custom' : Islamic influences on African land laws / Siraj Sait; title: The Humwe principle : a social -ordering grundnorm for Zimbabwe and Africa? / Ben Chigara; title: Gender perspectives of property rights in rural Kenya / Leah Onyango, Anne Omollo and Elizabeth Ayo; title: Legal challenges of land held in trust for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCS) in Kenya / George Anang'a, Colleta Otieno and Awuor Oluoch; title: Compensation for compulsory acquisition of land for mining activities in Nigeria : the search for a viable solution / Oludayo Gabriel Amokaye.