TY - BOOK ID - 14266709 TI - African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state AU - Moyo, Sam AU - Codesria. PY - 2008 SN - 2869782020 9786612901232 286978340X 2869783841 1282901230 2869782659 9782869782020 9782869783843 9782869782655 9781282901230 6612901233 9782869783409 PB - Dakar, Senegal Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa DB - UniCat KW - Land use KW - Land reform KW - Land tenure KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Agrarian reform KW - Economic policy KW - Social policy KW - Agriculture and state KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome KW - Business & Economics KW - Real Estate, Housing & Land Use UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14266709 AB - This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capita ER -