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 southw

Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contem

The 2008 outcry over the "global land grab" made headlines around the world, and has led to sustained interest among both academics and the international develo

Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen million people were uprooted from West Africa and enslaved in the Trans-Saharan and Transatl

Land tenure and Resource Access in West Africa Programme