Inalienability Of Land And Citizenship In The African Context

Author : Simeon Onyewueke Eboh
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015064685871

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Inalienability of Land and Citizenship in the African Context by Simeon Onyewueke Eboh Pdf

"Colonialism disrupted traditional authority over land and removed the spiritual linkage between the land and the people in exchange for simple material consideration. The colonial-received legal systems operating in Africa have no relevance to the socio-cultural make-up of the people as they lack communal sharing ethos and mechanisms for an equitable distribution of the communal wealth which are the foundations of justice, peace and harmonious co-existence. The study re-evaluates the meaning and values Africans attach to land and citizenship and their jural implications in order to provide workable compasses for the African peoples to navigate successfully through the labyrinthine jungles of globalisation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Simeon Onyewueke Eboh
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004899162

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Inalienability of Land and Citizenship in the African Context by Simeon Onyewueke Eboh Pdf

"Colonialism disrupted traditional authority over land and removed the spiritual linkage between the land and the people in exchange for simple material consideration. The colonial-received legal systems operating in Africa have no relevance to the socio-cultural make-up of the people as they lack communal sharing ethos and mechanisms for an equitable distribution of the communal wealth which are the foundations of justice, peace and harmonious co-existence. The study re-evaluates the meaning and values Africans attach to land and citizenship and their jural implications in order to provide workable compasses for the African peoples to navigate successfully through the labyrinthine jungles of globalisation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gordon R. Woodman
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643999320

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The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 58/2008 by Gordon R. Woodman Pdf

Jon Unruh examines the role of a disordered and dysfunctional legal pluralism in Liberia's descent into internal armed conflict. Thoko Khaime considers the concepts of children's universal rights and their relationship to the social reality of living law in an African society. Abdulmumuni Oba discusses the jurisdiction and functioning of Area Courts in the state of Ilorin in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Sue Farran examines the land law in the Pacific state of Vanuatu.

Author : Douglas V. Armstrong
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815655237

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The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Life in Freedom by Douglas V. Armstrong Pdf

Harriet Tubman’s social activism as well as her efforts as a soldier, nurse, and spy have been retold in countless books and films and have justly elevated her to iconic status in American history. Given her fame and contributions, it is surprising how little is known of her later years and her continued efforts for social justice, women’s rights, and care for the elderly. Tubman housed and cared for her extended family, parents, brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews, as well as many other African Americans seeking refuge. Ultimately her house just outside of Auburn, New York, would become a focal point of Tubman’s expanded efforts to provide care to those who came to her seeking shelter and support, in the form of the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged. In this book, Armstrong reconstructs and interprets Tubman’s public and private life in freedom through integrating his archaeological findings with historical research. The material record Tubman left behind sheds vital light on her life and the ways in which she interacted with local and national communities, giving readers a fuller understanding of her impact on the lives of African Americans. Armstrong’s research is part of a wider effort to enhance public interpretation and engagement with the Harriet Tubman Home.

Author : Bronwen Manby
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781936133291

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Citizenship Law in Africa by Bronwen Manby Pdf

Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality. Laws and practices governing citizenship leave hundreds of thousands of people in Africa without a country to which they belong. Statelessness and discriminatory citizenship practices underlie and exacerbate tensions in many regions of the continent, according to this report by the Open Society Institute. Citizenship Law in Africa is a comparative study by the Open Society Justice Initiative and Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project. It describes the often arbitrary, discriminatory, and contradictory citizenship laws that exist from state to state, and recommends ways that African countries can bring their citizenship laws in line with international legal norms. The report covers topics such as citizenship by descent, citizenship by naturalization, gender discrimination in citizenship law, dual citizenship, and the right to identity documents and passports. It describes how stateless Africans are systematically exposed to human rights abuses: they can neither vote nor stand for public office; they cannot enroll their children in school, travel freely, or own property; they cannot work for the government.--Publisher description.

Author : Albert Kwokwo Barume,IWGIA,International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 8792786405

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Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Africa by Albert Kwokwo Barume,IWGIA,International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Pdf

Author : Okpe Nicholas Ọjọajogwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000110368861

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Social and Cultural Identity of an African Society by Okpe Nicholas Ọjọajogwu Pdf

Author : Austin Echema
Publisher : Iko
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069350604

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Anointing of the Sick and the Healing Ministry by Austin Echema Pdf

Through its practice of healing down the ages the Church has been able to inculturate the Christian message, but not without the risks of the manipulation' of the divine power which have gone with these practices. Throughout its long history anointing of the sick has almost constantly oscillated between physical and spiritual effects. This book critically examines the manifold practices of healing which flourish today in our midst especially in Nigeria. It emphasizes the teaching of the Church on healing and the healing power of the sacraments and proposes the inculturation of the ritual of anointing the sick that will be truly Christian and authentically African. Austin Echema is a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri (Nigeria). He studied philosophy and theology in Bigard Memorial Seminary Ikot Ekpene (now St. Joseph's) and Enugu respectively and obtained his doctorate in theology from the Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt/Main (Germany). He teaches liturgy at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and is a visiting lecturer at the Seat of Wisdom Major Seminary Owerri (Nigeria).

Author : Elmarie Costandius,Freeman Odiboh
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928314073

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The Relevance of Critical Citizenship Education in an African Context by Elmarie Costandius,Freeman Odiboh Pdf

Critical citizenship is a multi-faceted, contemporary social, political and educational issue being discussed from a wide range of disciplines and points of view. Unusually, this collection brings together scholars in the fields of theology, art and design to ponder various levels and forms of education, including early childhood interventions, the rehabilitation of young offenders, and the impact of homosexuality in Malawi on citizenship and the links with theological teachings. The common ground that brought participants together was a mutual, collaborative search for the relevance for the African context of the notion of citizenship education, be it ‘critical’, ‘democratic’, ‘responsible’, ‘active’ or preferably all of these forms or aspects of citizenship brought together.

Author : Robert K. Hitchcock,Diana Vinding
Publisher : IWGIA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 8791563089

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Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa by Robert K. Hitchcock,Diana Vinding Pdf

This book is concerned with the first peoples (those people who are considered indigenous by themselves and others) of southern Africa such as the San, the Nama, and the Khoi, and their rights. Although living in democratic countries like Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana --and in principle sharing the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of the population--practice shows that these peoples more often than not are at the margins of the societies in which they live; they often face extreme poverty, and they frequently are subjected to discriminatory treatment and exposed to all kinds of human rights abuses. Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He has done extensive research and development work in southern Africa in general and among San peoples in particular. Diana Vinding is an anthropologist working with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Copenhagen.

Author : Robtel Neajai Pailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108836548

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Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa by Robtel Neajai Pailey Pdf

Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.

Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107035317

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Making Citizens in Africa by Lahra Smith Pdf

This book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.

Author : Paul Nugent,Daniel Hammett,Sara Dorman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047420071

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Making Nations, Creating Strangers by Paul Nugent,Daniel Hammett,Sara Dorman Pdf

This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.

Author : Bernd Reiter
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628951622

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The Dialectics of Citizenship by Bernd Reiter Pdf

What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter’s timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in search of answers. It examines the European medieval city republics, revolutionary France, and contemporary Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia. Through an innovative exploration of country cases, this study demonstrates that those who stand to lose something from true democracy tend to oppose it, making the genealogy of citizenship concurrent with that of exclusion. More often than not, exclusion leads to racialization, stigmatizing the excluded to justify their non-membership. Each case allows for different insights into the process of how citizenship is upheld and challenged. Together, the cases reveal how exclusive rights are constituted by contrasting members to non-members who in that very process become racialized others. The book provides an opportunity to understand the dynamics that weaken democracy so that they can be successfully addressed and overcome in the future.

Author : Carola Lentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253009616

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Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa by Carola Lentz Pdf

An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University