Local Case Studies in African Land Law / / Robert Home.

This book on themes in African land law is one of a pair, the other presenting local case studies. It is not so easy to achieve an overview, nor to find specialist writers in the field. Land law has traditionally been regarded as a difficult subject to teach, and specialists are fewer in the law dep...

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Place / Publishing House:Pretoria : : Pretoria University Law Press (PULP),, 2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (202 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction Acknowledgments
  • 1. Post-conflict land in Africa: The liberal peace agenda and the transformative alternative
  • 2. Land issues in the Rwanda's post conflict law reform
  • 3. Land law, governance and rapid urban growth: A case study of Kisumu, Kenya
  • 4. The impact of the Land Use Act upon land rights in Nigeria
  • 5. The evolution of land law and policy in post-independence Namibia
  • 6. Land registration from a legal pluralistic perspective: A case study of Oshakati - Namibia
  • 7. Limits of incremental land tenure reform in Botswana
  • 8. Understanding the coexistence of the Tribal Land Act and Town and Country Planning Act in Botswana's urban villages
  • 9. Land registration and poverty reduction in Ghana
  • 10. Gated communities in Ghana: A new institutional economics approach to regulation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography.