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Women and Land in Africa

Culture, Religion and Realizing Women's Rights
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This work brings together ongoing research into rural African women and land rights, with the aim of contributing towards gender equality and the economic independence and human rights of African women. It looks at a number of countries from West and East Africa and the Horn - Islamic and non-Islamic. The contributors examine women's land rights in theory and practice in each country, highlight the key issues and make recommendations. Important commonalities emerge, including the dualism between customary and religious land law, and statute law; the gap between women's rights in theory and practice; and the superior rights, power and control of men over land, decision-making, and household income. The situation is not static and the contributors argue that new customary and religious interpretations are needed which recognise that today's communities are both urban and rural, multi-ethnic and pluralistic, and that women's equal status and full enjoyment of rights are things to be welcomed and enshrined in customary, religious and statutory law.

Author Biography:

MUTHONI WANYEKI is director of the African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET), Nairobi, Kenya. She was educated at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and since returning to Kenya has been active in civil society institutions concerned with gender, human rights and communications. The CONTRIBUTORS are land rights researchers and activists from various countries in Africa and internationally.
Release date Australia
March 1st, 2003
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
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  • Edited by L.Muthoni Wanyeki
Pages
400
Dimensions
156x236x21
ISBN-13
9781842770979
Product ID
11985779

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