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Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part of the Local and Urban Governance Book Series

Editors: Home, Robert

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52504-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-52503-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 12, 2020

1 - 10 of 22 Chapters

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Chapter 1Land, Law and African Land Governance: Introduction

Home, Robert

Pages: 1 –15

[This collection of essays is one in a series of books on local and urban governance, bringing together scholarship from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It is aimed at readers from urban specialisms in law, geography and other social sciences and professionals and...
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Chapter 2The Quest for “Good Governance” of Urban Land in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insight into Windhoek, Namibia

Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene

Pages: 17 –34

[There is an increasing demand for good urban governance by city residents all over sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This chapter traces the historical background of land issues in the region in response to the growing quest for “good governance” in urban land affairs. It critiques current and past...
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Chapter 3Financing African Cities: A Fiscal Lens on Urban Governance

Cirolia, Liza Rose

Pages: 35 –51

[Understanding how African cities are governed requires a close look at how they are financed. From a fiscal and financial perspective, the chapter makes several important contributions to our understanding of urban governance in Africa. First, it shows that understanding public finance, in...
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Chapter 4Urban Governance Through Religious Authority in Touba, Senegal

Ross, Eric; Guèye, Cheikh

Pages: 53 –71

[Based on the study of the holy city of Touba in Senegal, this chapter demonstrates how the autonomous management of urbanisation by a religious institution can produce a city which provides affordable housing and basic civic amenities to its residents. Touba is the spiritual capital of the...
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Chapter 5The Right to the City and South African Jurisprudence

Kamga, Serges Djoyou

Pages: 73 –87

[This chapter explores the nexus between human rights and the right to the city. Although not formally enshrined in core international human rights instruments, the right to the city is developed by the doctrine, global organisations and activists and has cascaded down into the World Charter on...
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Chapter 6Urban Landownership and the Right to Sustainable Development for Women in Africa

Ngang, Carol C.

Pages: 89 –102

[This chapter explores urban landownership in relation to the right to sustainable development granted by law to all the women of Africa. Although Africa is becoming more and more urbanised, its women are largely still relegated to remote rural areas and excluded from the benefits of urban life,...
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Chapter 7Effectiveness of Planning Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amin, Anne; Lewis-Lettington, Robert; Njuguna, Samuel

Pages: 103 –120

[Physical planning policy and its wider parent field of urban development have evolved over 100–150 years. They are dynamic and creative fields with a plethora of theories and solutions on offer, as reflected in the objectives of the SDGs and the ways forward proposed by the NUA. In contrast,...
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Chapter 8Twenty Years of Building Capacity in Land Management, Land Tenure and Urban Land Governance

de Vries, Walter Timo; Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene; Duran-Diaz, Pamela

Pages: 121 –136

[Being the basis of economy in most of African territory, land is subject of conflict in the increasing demand for food, fuel, dwellings and natural resources. In this continuous struggle, governance plays a major role in decision-making regarding the use of and access to land, for which capacity...
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Chapter 9Stocktaking Participatory and Inclusive Land Readjustment in Africa

Chavunduka, Charles; Chikuku, Kudakwashe; Chivenge, Marcyline

Pages: 137 –153

[The rapid growth of African cities has posed major challenges in the provision of adequate housing, public infrastructure and services as central and urban local governments have lacked the financial and institutional capacity to support urban expansion. Against the background of these...
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Chapter 10Governance Challenges in African Urban Fantasies

Abubakar, Ismaila Rimi

Pages: 155 –169

[Satellite settlements are recently booming around major African cities, often as comprehensively planned and self-contained new towns. These large-scale projects are influenced by the visions of global, smart, and sustainable cities, and are funded largely through international real estate...

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