Land, law and politics in Africa
Subtitle: mediating conflict and reshaping the state
By: edited by Jan Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn
Contributors: Hesseling, Gerti
Series: African dynamics -- v. 10; African dynamics -- 10.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9789004217386
Subjects: Rural Land use; Customary law; Government policy; Economic development; Law; Conflict management; Land tenure
Notes: "This project was envisaged as a testimony to the inspirational legacy of Professor Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009), the Dutch legal scholar and Africanist"--Introduction.

Includes bibliography of the works of Gerti Hesseling.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English or French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Land, law and conflict mediation in Africa / Jan Abbink; title: Partenariat et interdisciplinarite: la voie alternative de Gerti Hesseling et du LASDEL / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan & Mahaman Tidjani Alou; title: Cultural models of power in Africa / Walter van Beek; title: Human rights in the traditional legal system of the Nkoya people of Zambia / Wim M.J. van Binsbergen; title: 'Sons of the soil': autochthony and its ambiguities in Africa and Europe / Peter Geschiere; title: How can Africa develop? Reflections on theories, concepts and realities / Patrick Chabal; title: L'economie sociale et solidaire pour stimuler le developpement ascendant et endogene / Abdou Salam Fall; title: Land conflicts in Senegal revisited: continuities and emerging dynamics / Mayke Kaag, Yaram Gaye & Marieke Kruis; title: 'More punitive penalties should be given to urban farmers': laws and politics surrounding urban agriculture in Eldoret, Kenya / Romborah R. Simiyu & Dick Foeken; title: Settling border conflicts in Africa peacefully: lessons learned from the Bakassi dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria / Piet Konings; title: Democracy deferred: understanding elections and the role of donors in Ethiopia / Jan Abbink; title: La production d'un nouveau constitutionnalisme en Afrique : internationalisation et regionalisation du droit constitutionnel / Babacar Kante; title: Le juge constitutionnel et la construction de l'etat de droit au Senegal / Fatima Diallo; title: Sur les traces du droit vivant dans le labyrinthe du droit foncier et des pratiques locales au Mali / Moussa Djire; title: Effectuating normative change in customary legal systems: an end to 'widow chasing' in northern Namibia? / Janine Ubink; title: Decentralization and the articulation of local and regional politics in central Chad / Han van Dijk; title: Conflict mobility and the search for peace in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn & Egosha E. Osaghae.