基本説明
This work brings together ongoing research into rural African women and land rights, looking at a number of countries from West and East Africa and the Horn - Islamic and non-Islamic.
Full Description
This volume is the product of original research into the changing situations which rural African women are experiencing in relation to land rights.
The contributors highlight key land rights issues and make recommendations for each country. In a particularly interesting innovation, the volume examines the case of Ethiopia where an explicit attempt has been made not only to make the research findings available beyond the academic community, but to deploy this information in a rolling programme of advocacy.
The authors argue that various social forces are now weakening customary and religious institutions; and innovative approaches to advocacy are seeking to assert women's human rights in this changing context.
Contents
Introduction - L. Muthoni Wanyeki
Part I: Women's Land Rights In Rural Africa: Law and Practice
1. Women and Land in Cameroon: Questioning Women's Land Status and Claims for Change - Patrice Bigombe Logo and Elise-Henrietta Bikie
2. Women's Land Rights in the Third World : The Case of Ethiopia - Zenabaworke Tadesse
3. Women's Land Rights in Mozambique: Cultural, Legal and Social Contexts - Liazzat Bonate
4. Women and Land in Northern Nigeria: The Need for Independent Ownership Rights - Hussaina J. Abdullah and Ibrahim Hamza
5. Culture, Practice and Law: Women's Access to Land in Rwanda - Jennie E. Burnet and the Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development
6. Women and Land in Africa: A Case Study from Senegal - Ngone Diop Tine and Mouhamadou Sy
7. Gender, Land and Rights: Contemporary Contestations in Law, Policy and Practice in Uganda - Winnie Bikaako and John Ssenkumba
Part II: Key Land Rights Issues and Reccomendations
8. Cameroon: Overcoming Custom, Discrimination and Powerlessness
9. Ethiopia: Women's Status and Land Reform
10. Nigeria: The Road to Independent Ownership
11. Senegal: Land Rights, Culture and Religion
12. Uganda: The Search for Secure Land Tenure
Appendix: Women's Rights under International Law and Policy
Part III: The Advocacy Process: The Example of Ethiopia
13. Women's Access to and Control over Land in Ethiopia: The First Workshop - Rachel Kagoiya, Atsango Chesoni and L. Muthoni Wanyeki
14. Enhancing Ethiopian Women's Access to and Control over Land: The Second Workshop - Atsango Chesoni and Grace Githaiga
