Product Description
Pluralism and Development (softcover)
Authors: TW Bennett, H Mostert
Format: Physical Hardcopy
This title comprises a collection of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cape Town in 2010, which consider how development in Africa may best be achieved by concentrating on access to property from a pluralist perspective, with emphasis on land, the most important economic resource.
Contents:
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Access to property in Africa: An introductory survey - Thomas Bennett and Hanri Mostert
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Absolute ownership and legal pluralism in Roman law: Two arguments - Helen Scott
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Legal pluralism in Africa: The implications of state recognition of customary laws illustrated from the field of land law - Gordon Woodman
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Legal pluralism and access to land in Nigeria - Enyinna Nwauche
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The changing dynamics of customary land tenure: Women’s access to and control over land in Botswana - Anne Griffiths
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Taking the gap – ‘Living law land grabbing’ in the context of customary succession laws in Southern Africa - Chuma Himonga
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Securing women’s property inheritance in the context of plurality: Negotiations of law and authority in Mbuzini customary courts and beyond - Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
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Contested power and apartheid tribal boundaries: The implications of ‘living customary law’ for indigenous accountability mechanisms - Aninka Claassens
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Lost in translation: Family title in Fingo Village, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape - Rosalie Kingwill
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Land information as a tool for effective land administration and development - Gerrit Pienaar
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Legal pluralism – The investor’s view - Johann Schiller
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Promises of future performance and informal-sector transfers of personal property: The example of Anglophone Cameroon - Claire Moore Dickerson
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Indigenous-law land rights: Constitutional imperatives and proprietary paradoxes - Anne Pope
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