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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (Hardcover)
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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (Hardcover)
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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.
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