By Ward Anseeuw, Chris Alden

Highlighting the pressing challenge of land disputes in Africa, this selection of essays additionally attracts awareness to the complicated root explanations of those conflicts and the demanding situations they current for the governance of either states and markets. Written by means of authors from educational, diplomatic, and political backgrounds, the ebook is an important reference at the debate approximately land matters in Africa. The study provides a continental standpoint in chapters that describe inner crises in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, northern Cameroon, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

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During the 1990s, Sabaot leaders took over existing land-buying cooperatives in Trans Nzoia District and Sabaot leaders and their clients privately purchased, individually and collectively, a whole area located in the foothills east of Mount Elgon. The backing of the Moi regime was certainly a prerequisite for such a move. Previously, Kenyatta’s regime had resorted, on a much wider scale, to land-buying companies to settle his own clients in the same area and in neighbouring areas of the Rift Valley Province where the former White Highlands are located.

What might be viewed as poor land administration, inefficiency or political interference in land allocations leading to strong resentment and ‘indigenous’ strategies to reclaim the land should in fact be described as deliberate political strategies on the part of leaders to accumulate wealth and power through the politics of patronage. ‘Indigenous’ land claims in Chebyuk, Mount Elgon District, are viewed in a context of deep involvement by government (territorial administration and politicians) in land matters.

This chapter focuses on the area of Chebyuk, a well-watered and fertile area located on the southern slopes of Mount Elgon, which epitomises insecurity of land tenure originating both from government and from ‘indigenous’ claims to land. What might be viewed as poor land administration, inefficiency or political interference in land allocations leading to strong resentment and ‘indigenous’ strategies to reclaim the land should in fact be described as deliberate political strategies on the part of leaders to accumulate wealth and power through the politics of patronage.

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