State property vs. customary ownership: a comparative framework in West Africa

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2021-01-01

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Dolcerocca, Antoıne

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This article examines relations between state and customary land claims in Francophone West Africa. This region, despite a broadly common legal heritage at the time of independence, experienced a wide variety of changes at the national scale to the point where these countries now form a full spectrum of statutory/customary relations. After a historical review of rural property rights in Francophone West Africa, this article proposes a typology of State vs. Customary ownership in the region with a focus on four exemplary cases: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Mauritania.

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Customary rights, French West Africa, Land reforms, Legal pluralism, Rural land, State property

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85106532083&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/90880

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Journal of Peasant Studies

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https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1907353

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A. Dolcerocca, “State property vs. customary ownership: a comparative framework in West Africa,” Journal of Peasant Studies, pp. 0–0, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85106532083&origin=inward.