Finalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book
Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal land
relations in Kenya. Why, despite the introduction of new land laws
beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in
Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing
grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important
book suggests that questions of justice should be central to
discussions of African land reform. Constitutional reformers in
Kenya promised transformative changes in land relations. However,
the reality has disappointed. Land law reforms since 2010 have been
more concerned with the administration of land and with
bureaucratic power than with the real consequences of unequal
access to land for ordinary Kenyans. Manji documents this thwarted
struggle and surveys the prospects for genuine change. Published in
association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ambreena
Manji is Professor of Land Law and Development at the School of Law
and Politics, Cardiff University. Between 2010 and 2014, she was
Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Her books
include The Politics of Land Reform in Africa (2006). Vita Books:
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and South
Africa.
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