Land, the State and the Unfinished Decol

Essays in Honour of Professor Sam Moyo

Horman Chitonge, Yoichi Mine, Horman Chitonge, Yoichi Mine

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9789956550586
• eBook ISBN: 9789956550470
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book focuses on the work of one of the leading African scholars on the land question and agrarian transformation in AfricaSam Moyo. It offers a critical discussion, in conversation with Sam Moyo, of the land question and the response of African states. Since independence, African states have been trying to address the colonial legacy on land policy and governance. After six decades of formulating and implementing land reforms, most countries have not succeeded in decolonising approaches to land policy and the administrative framework. The book brings together the broader debates on the implications of decolonisation of Africas land policy. Through case studies from several African countries, the book offers an empirical analysis on land reforms and the emerging land relations, and how these affect land allocation and use, including agricultural production. Most of the chapters discuss how the unresolved land question in post-colonial Africa impacts on agricultural production and rural development broadly. The failure to decolonise colonial land policy and the imported tenure systems has left post-colonial African states dancing to two tunes, resulting in schizophrenic land and agrarian policies. The book demonstrates that the failure by African states to reconcile imported and indigenous land tenure systems and practices is evident in the deliberate denigration of customary tenure. It is also evident in the rising land inequality and the neglect of the agricultural sector, the small-scale and subsistence sub-sectors in particular.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Preface. The State and the Land Question in Africa: The Unfinished Business
• Chapter 1 - Perspectives on “African Potentials”
• Chapter 2 - The Land Question and the Economy: Cues of an Incomplete Decolonisation Project in Africa
• Chapter 3 - Corporate Power, the State, and the Post-Capitalist Future
• Chapter 4 - Policy-Oriented Rural Development in China and its Potential Influence on Rural Development in Africa
• Chapter 5 - Agricultural Land-Delivery Systems on Zimbabwe: A Review of Four Decades of Sam Moyo’s Work on Agricultural Land Markets and their Constraints
• Chapter 6 - Cleaning the House, Greening the Farm: Reverse Thinking and “African Potentials” to Combat Desertification in Sahel Region, West Africa
• Chapter 7 - Reactions of Peasants to Global Capital in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Tobacco Contract Farming in Mashonaland East Province
• Chapter 8 - Opportunities and Constraints for Black Farming in a Former South African Homeland: A Case Study of The Mooi River Irrigation Scheme, Msinga, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
• Chapter 9 - An Assessment of the Cameroonian Government’s Role in the Mbororo Land Struggle in the Northwest Region
• Chapter 10 - From Friends to Strangers? Social Capital and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme of Zimbabwe
• Chapter 11 - Land Reform, Belonging and Social Relations: Probing the Linkages between Communal Areas and A1 Villagised Settlements in Zvimba District, Zimbabwe
• Chapter 12 - Land Contestations after Fast Track Land Reform Programme: Emerging Land Tenure Challenges in Zimbabwe
• Chapter 13 - The Legacy of Steve Biko and the Japanese Social Movements
• Back cover