The Tragic African Commons: A Century of Expropriation, Suppression, and Subversion

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8098
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Okoth-Ogendo, H.W.O.
Conference:	Workshop on Public Interest Law and Community-Based Property Rights Organised by the Lawyers Environmental Action Team
Location:	MS-TSC DC Danish Volunteer Centre, Arusha, Tanzania
Conf. Date:	August 1-4
Date:	2000
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8098
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	common pool resources tragedy of the commons colonization property rights customary law land tenure and use
Abstract:	"This piece examines the nature of the African Commons as a property system; analyses the extent of damage which was inflicted upon it during one hundred years of exploitation, suppression and subversion; explains why, inspite of that damage, the Commons have survived; and confronts the issue of what it will take to restore their legitimacy within, and guarantee their status in, positive law alongside other property systems."

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