Who owns land in Africa?

There are three systems of land tenure operating in Africa today: common law, state law based on colonial law and, in some areas, the law of Islam. None of these could be said to be dominant either regionally or nationally. Today, because of the...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1993
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49254
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Summary:There are three systems of land tenure operating in Africa today: common law, state law based on colonial law and, in some areas, the law of Islam. None of these could be said to be dominant either regionally or nationally. Today, because of the...