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  • Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa

    2009, author(s)-editor(s) Michael Akomaye Yanou
    An African Perspective This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou examines the country’s property model in the context of the post apartheid constitutional mandate to redress the skewed land distribution of the past. The book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the land restitution process as well as the question of the payment of just and equitable compensation for land expropriated for restitution. It also (...)

  • Democracy and Human Rights in Africa: The Politics of Collective Participation and Governance in Cameroon

    2013, author(s)-editor(s) Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu
    Since the mid-1980s, there has been much federalism talk in Cameroon where federation (said to have been created in Foumban in 1961) had supposedly been ’overwhelmingly’ rejected in 1972 by Cameroonians. ’Confusioncracy’ is the one good term that could conveniently explain it. Written with the trilogy of criticism, provocation, and construction in mind, this book aims at reconstructing a new and vigorous society in Cameroon that ensures respect for fundamental human rights and certain basic (...)

  • Bakassi: Or the Politics of Exclusion and Occupation?

    2013, author(s)-editor(s) Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni
    This is a complex volume that combines a good deal of survey data on Bakassi and its populations with more ethnographically based insights into the conditions of the Bakassi communities. The book is the outcome of research carried out by Fongot Kini between 2004 and 2009. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi Cameroon-Nigeria border region. The term Bakassi engenders multiple meanings loaded with many conflicting (...)