November 01, 2005
Zimbabwe - Land, Livelihoods, Politics
Moore, Donald S.
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
399 pages
On land disputes in Zimbabwe. Donald Moore received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University.
A description of the book with comments by James Ferguson, Achille Mbembe, and Elizabeth A. Povinelli is on the Duke University Press site.
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September 02, 2005
Land Reform - Zambia
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.
Impact of the Land Act 1995 on the Livelihoods of the Poor and Peasants in Zambia.
Lusaka, Zambia: 2003. 163 pages
Discusses the situation for women and states that people want the chiefs to have more power.
For internet resources on Zambia see
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/zambia.html
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August 25, 2005
African Government Document of the Week
Kenya. Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal / Irregular Allocation of Public Land.
Report. Chairman: Paul Ndungu
Nairobi: June 2004. 3 vols. Vol. 1 - 244 p. Vols. 2 (976 p.) and 3 (797 p.) are Annexes
Concerns the illegal giving of public land by previous Kenya government officials - an estimated over 200,000 illegal allocations since independence in 1963.
Oxfam (U.K.)'s site on East African land issues -
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/livelihoods/landrights/africa_east.htm
includes the following journal article and many others.
The Ndungu Report: Land & Graft in Kenya
Source: Review of African Political Economy, Vol.32, No.103, March 2005, pp.142-51. (Roger Southall)
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/livelihoods/landrights/downloads/ndungu_report_land_graft.rtf
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