Law, Power and Politics in Niger
Title | Law, Power and Politics in Niger PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Lund |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Law |
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This book analyzes the recent land tenure reform in Niger, and the eruptions of violence as a result of these measures. Through detailed analysis of these conflicts, this book elucidates the complex institutional structure of dispute management and the ambiguous nature of the rules pertaining to land rights. The book also shows how institutional and local competition over natural resources plays a part in the fights for jurisdiction in rural Nigeria.
Land, Power and Politics in Niger
Title | Land, Power and Politics in Niger PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Lund |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Dispute resolution (Law) |
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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa
Title | Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Lund |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2008-03-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521886543 |
Access to land and property is vital to people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagination to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political, administrative, and legal institutions. This book is dedicated to a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. While scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from this book shows that when there are many institutions competing for the right to authorize claims to land, the result of an effort to unify and clarify the law is to intensify competition among them and weaken their legitimacy. The book particularly explores how state divestiture of land in 1979 encouraged competition between customary authorities and how the institution of the earthpriest was revived. Such processes are key to understanding property and authority in Africa.
Decentralisation and Local Power in Niger
Title | Decentralisation and Local Power in Niger PDF eBook |
Author | Abdoulaye Mohamadou |
Publisher | IIED |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Decentralization in government |
ISBN | 1843697254 |
Contested Terrain
Title | Contested Terrain PDF eBook |
Author | Annmarie M. Terraciano |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Land reform |
ISBN |
Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa
Title | Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Lund |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010-03-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521148511 |
Access to land and property is vital to people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagination to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political, administrative, and legal institutions. This book is dedicated to a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. While scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from this book shows that when there are many institutions competing for the right to authorize claims to land, the result of an effort to unify and clarify the law is to intensify competition among them and weaken their legitimacy. The book particularly explores how state divestiture of land in 1979 encouraged competition between customary authorities and how the institution of the earthpriest was revived. Such processes are key to understanding property and authority in Africa.
Revolution and Power Politics in Yorubaland, 1840-1893
Title | Revolution and Power Politics in Yorubaland, 1840-1893 PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Adebanji Akintoye |
Publisher | Humanities Press International |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | History |
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