Africa: Volume 62 - Rights Over Land: Categories and Controversies

Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding: Power, Wealth, and Meaning
Parker Shipton, Mitzi Goheen
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07 December 2011, pp. 307-325
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Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of its nations—for instance Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria—encompass within their borders a full spectrum from range land or desert with fewer than five per square kilometre to better-watered settlements of over 500 per square kilometre, where domestic groups have space for little more than kitchen gardens.

Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land
Sara Berry
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07 December 2011, pp. 327-355
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Debts and trespasses: land, mortgages, and the ancestors in western Kenya
Parker Shipton
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07 December 2011, pp. 357-388
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Chiefs, subchiefs and local control: negotiations over land, struggles over meaning
Mitzi Goheen
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07 December 2011, pp. 389-412
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Manoeuvres and debates in the interpretation of land rights in Botswana
Pauline E. Peters
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07 December 2011, pp. 413-434
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Mohamed Omer Beshir, 1926-92
I. M. Lewis
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07 December 2011, pp. 435-438
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Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (eds.), African Agriculture: the critical choices. London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1990, 227 pp., hard covers £32.95, ISBN 0 86 232 789 9 paperback £9.95, ISBN 0 86 232 799 7.
K. Swindell
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07 December 2011, pp. 439-441
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P. T. W. Baxter with Richard Hogg (eds.), Property, Poverty and People: changing rights in property and problems of pastoral development. Manchester: Department of Social Anthropology and International Development Centre, University of Manchester, 1991, 288 pp., £11.00.
Johan Pottier
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07 December 2011, pp. 441-444
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Michael E. Meeker, The Pastoral Son and the Spirit of Patriarchy: religion, society and person among East African stock keepers. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, 216 pp., hard covers $37.50; paperback $18.25 (paper, ISBN 0 299 11740 5).
P. T. W. Baxter
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07 December 2011, pp. 444-446
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Claude Martin, The Rainforests of West Africa: ecology, threats, conservation, trans. Linda Tsardakas. Basle , Berlin and Boston, Mass.: Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1991, 235 pp., ISBN (Boston) 0 8176 2380 9.
Paul Richards
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07 December 2011, pp. 446-447
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David S. G. Thomas and Paul A. Shaw, The Kalahari Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 298 pp., £55.00, ISBN 0 521 37080 9.
M. A. Summerfield
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07 December 2011, pp. 447-448
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Steadman Upham (ed.), The Evolution of Political Systems: sociopolitics in smallscale sedentary societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 332 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0521 38252 1.
Robert Chapman
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07 December 2011, pp. 448-450
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William D. Graf The Nigerian State: political economy, state class and political system in the post-colonial era. London: James Currey, 1988, 297 pp., hard covers £25.00, ISBN 0 85255 313 7; paperback £11.95, ISBN 0 85255 314 5.
Tekena N. Tamuno
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07 December 2011, pp. 450-452
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Margaret Peil, Lagos: the city is the people. London: Belhaven Press, 1991, 225 pp., £32.00, ISBN 1 85293 103 5.
Anthony O'Connor
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07 December 2011, pp. 453-454
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Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: peasant voices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 303pp., £35.00 ISBN 0 521 39254 3.
Mark F. Chingono
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07 December 2011, pp. 454-456
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Akintola J. G. Wyse, H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919-58. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 190pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 521 36515 5
P. E. H. Hair
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07 December 2011, pp. 456-457
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Simon Gikandi, Reading Chinua Achebe: language and ideology in fiction. London: James Currey, 1991, 165 pp., £9.95, ISBN 0 85255 527 X.
Ode S. Ogede
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07 December 2011, pp. 457-459
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Richard Gray, Black Christians and White Missionaries. London and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990, 141pp., £18.50, ISBN 0 300 04910 2.
Andrew C. Ross
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07 December 2011, pp. 459-460
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Martin Staniland, American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-70. London and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991, 310pp., £18.95, ISBN 0 300 04838 6.
Richard Rathbone
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07 December 2011, pp. 460-461
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J. E. G. Sutton (ed.), History of African Agricultural Technology and Field Systems. Special volume of Azania: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 24, 1989, 122 pp., £10.50, ISSN 0067 270 X.
Paul Richards
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07 December 2011, p. 462
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Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding: Power, Wealth, and Meaning

Hegemony on a shoestring: indirect rule and access to agricultural land

Debts and trespasses: land, mortgages, and the ancestors in western Kenya

Chiefs, subchiefs and local control: negotiations over land, struggles over meaning

Manoeuvres and debates in the interpretation of land rights in Botswana

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Mohamed Omer Beshir, 1926-92

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Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (eds.), African Agriculture: the critical choices. London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1990, 227 pp., hard covers £32.95, ISBN 0 86 232 789 9 paperback £9.95, ISBN 0 86 232 799 7.

P. T. W. Baxter with Richard Hogg (eds.), Property, Poverty and People: changing rights in property and problems of pastoral development. Manchester: Department of Social Anthropology and International Development Centre, University of Manchester, 1991, 288 pp., £11.00.

Michael E. Meeker, The Pastoral Son and the Spirit of Patriarchy: religion, society and person among East African stock keepers. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, 216 pp., hard covers $37.50; paperback $18.25 (paper, ISBN 0 299 11740 5).

Claude Martin, The Rainforests of West Africa: ecology, threats, conservation, trans. Linda Tsardakas. Basle , Berlin and Boston, Mass.: Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1991, 235 pp., ISBN (Boston) 0 8176 2380 9.

David S. G. Thomas and Paul A. Shaw, The Kalahari Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 298 pp., £55.00, ISBN 0 521 37080 9.

Steadman Upham (ed.), The Evolution of Political Systems: sociopolitics in smallscale sedentary societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 332 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0521 38252 1.

William D. Graf The Nigerian State: political economy, state class and political system in the post-colonial era. London: James Currey, 1988, 297 pp., hard covers £25.00, ISBN 0 85255 313 7; paperback £11.95, ISBN 0 85255 314 5.

Margaret Peil, Lagos: the city is the people. London: Belhaven Press, 1991, 225 pp., £32.00, ISBN 1 85293 103 5.

Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: peasant voices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 303pp., £35.00 ISBN 0 521 39254 3.

Akintola J. G. Wyse, H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919-58. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 190pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 521 36515 5

Simon Gikandi, Reading Chinua Achebe: language and ideology in fiction. London: James Currey, 1991, 165 pp., £9.95, ISBN 0 85255 527 X.

Richard Gray, Black Christians and White Missionaries. London and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990, 141pp., £18.50, ISBN 0 300 04910 2.

Martin Staniland, American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-70. London and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991, 310pp., £18.95, ISBN 0 300 04838 6.

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J. E. G. Sutton (ed.), History of African Agricultural Technology and Field Systems. Special volume of Azania: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 24, 1989, 122 pp., £10.50, ISSN 0067 270 X.

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