Competing jurisdictions
Subtitle: settling land claims in Africa
By: edited by Sandra Evers, Marja Spierenburg, Harry Wels.
Contributors: Evers, Sandra.; Spierenburg, Marja.; Wels, Harry, 1961-
Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum series -- v. 6.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Land tenure -- Africa -- Congresses; Land reform -- Africa -- Congresses; Land use, Rural -- Government policy -- Africa; Right of property -- Africa -- Congresses; Land titles -- Africa -- Congresses; Commons -- Africa -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Selected papers from a conference held in September 2003 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Notes: Selected papers from a conference held in September 2003 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Communal tenure from above and from below. Land rights, authority and livelihoods in rural South Africa / Ben Cousins, Aninka Claassens; title: Land tenure reform in South Africa : a focus on the Moravian Church land in the Western Cape / Lungisile Ntsebeza; title: Contestation, confusion and corruption : market-based land reform in Zambia / Taylor Brown; title: We fought the war to return to the old ways. Conflicts about land reforms in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe / Marja Spierenburg; title: Fractionating local leadership : created authority and management of state land in Zimbabwe / Bill Kinsey; title: First-comers and late-comers : the role of narratives in land claims / Carola Lentz; title: State formation, access to the commons and autochthony among the Berbers of the Middle Atlas, Morocco / Bernhard Venema; title: Land and the politics of identity. The case of Anywaa-Nuer relations in the Gambella region / Dereje Feyissa; title: Trumping the ancestors : the challenges of implementing a land registration system in Madagascar / Sandra Evers; title: The struggle for land rights in the context of multiple normative orders in Tanzania / Rie Odgaard; title: Traditional additional authorities in Uganda and the management of legislatively decentralised forest resources / Frank Muhereza; title: Participative approaches and decentralized management of the Samori forest in the Baye municipality, Mopti region (Mali) / Bréhima Kassibo; title: Insiders out : forest access through village chiefs in Senegal / Sagana Thiaw, Jesse Ribot; title: Fighting over crumbs? Small valleys in West Africa as a new locus of land / Mayke Kaag.