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“Is culture an obstacle to African economic development?”
The author states: “The central question addressed in this paper is the following: to what extent the governance problems of SSA have something to do with the cultural patrimony inherited by African states and countries, culture being understood as “those customary beliefs and values that ethnic,...
“Islam, women and the role of the state in Senegal”

This paper mentions that while womencould influence decisions, they rarely made the principal choices, as they do not control land, which is the main source of power.

“Labour, land, and women’s rights in Africa: challenges for the new Protocol on the Rights of Women”
This paper discuss the additional Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, which was adopted in 2003, signed by thirty African states and ratified by at least half that number. The paper examines the challenges posed to this Protocol by existing...
“Land law and economic change in rural Senegal : Diola pledge transactions and disputes”
“Land law and the transition to capitalism: natural history of a Senegalese case study”
Snyder’s three papers above examine how land legislation in Senegal institutionalises the transition to capitalism.
“Land reform and public land ownership in Senegal”
“Land tenure status of African women"
As mentioned in the introduction of the paper, “a primary focus of this paper will be an examination of how women’s rights to land are changing and evolving. However, descriptions of the nature of women's rights – how they are obtained, whether they are secure or insecure, exclusive or inclusive –...
“Microcredit and women moneylenders: the shifting terrain of credit in rural Senegal”

This paper analyzes the new role rural Senegalese women play as moneylenders in their agrarian communities. The shifting terrain of local credit institutions parallels contemporary trends in rural development: state-led agricultural cooperatives, which were introduced in 1960, formerly bolstered...

“Policy discourses on women’s land rights in Sub–Saharan Africa: the implications of the return to the customary”
This article examines some contemporary policy discourses on land tenure reform in sub–Saharan Africa and their implications for women’s interests in land. It demonstrates an emerging consensus among a range of influential policy institutions, lawyers and academics about the potential of so–called...
“Property and constitutional order: Land tenure reform and the future of the African state”
The debate over land law reform in Africa has been framed as a referendum on the market – that is, as a debate pitting advocates of the growth-promoting individualization of property rights against those who call for protecting the livelihoods and subsistence rights of small farmers. This article...