The Effect of Registration of Title Upon Customary Land Rights in Kenya

Datos Bibliográficos

ID16767390
AutoresSimon Coldham (autor de correspondencia)
Año1978
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas91-111
Fecha de publicación1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of African Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021855300009591
OpenAlexW2116088760
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas1

When the State of Emergency was declared in 1952, most Africans in Kenya were living on the land in tribal reserves known as Native Land Units. Land rights within the Land Units were governed by native law and custom, though the demand for individual titles was strong, particularly in the Kikuyu Land Unit. However, administrators were divided about the desirability of hastening the demise of traditional institutions and concentrated their efforts on promoting agricultural development by taking measures against soil erosion and encouraging farmers to consolidate their holdings. It was only when large-scale compulsory land consolidation schemes were initiated in the mid-fifties among the Kikuyu that serious consideration was given to the nature of the title which the owner of a consolidated holding would acquire. Many people saw customary law as an obstacle to agricultural development (after all, the customary law relating to the allocation and inheritance of land was largely responsible for the considerable fragmentation of holdings that had occurred) and recommended that it be replaced by a system based on the registration of individual titles

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