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Why Differing Patterns of Land Rights Transformation and Land Conflict among the Yoruba of Nigeria?

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dc.contributor.author Oyerinde, Oyebade Kunle en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:37:37Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:37:37Z
dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-07-02 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-07-02 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1543
dc.description.abstract "The varying impacts of indigenous ordering principles on land rights transformation in African communities have been generally neglected in scholarly works. Despite strong reasons to believe that indigenous ordering principles can be hugely important in explaining a wide variety of outcomes, extensive attention in property rights research has gone to models of efficiency, the relative power of actors, distributional conflict, colonial legacies, and the role of African national governments as possible explanations. Based on a priori assumptions, studies on the Yoruba of Nigeria have treated Yoruba indigenous institutions as similar, with scholarship on African indigenous institutions treating these indigenous institutions as wholly useful for governance and property relationship reform. Yet, it is puzzling why changes in the distribution of land rights in Yoruba communities of Nigeria have led to differing patterns of violence. The main focus of this paper is to attempt to resolve this puzzle by analyzing how indigenous ordering principles in three relatively similar Yoruba communities of Nigeria--Abeokuta, Ibadan, and Ile-Ife--have influenced land rights transformation to lead to different patterns of violence. This study uses data from archival research, and unstructured and semi-structured interviews." en_US
dc.subject indigenous knowledge en_US
dc.subject property rights en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject conflict en_US
dc.title Why Differing Patterns of Land Rights Transformation and Land Conflict among the Yoruba of Nigeria? en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Nigeria en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Workshop on the Workshop 4 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 3-6, 2009 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Indiana University Bloomington en_US


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