An Introduction to Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dualism, Reform and the Roots of Conflict

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John W. Bruce

An Introduction to Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Dualism, Reform and the Roots of Conflict

John W. Bruce

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Routledge
04 February 2026

Regional studies; Comparative politics; Development economics; Management of land & natural resources; Agricultural science

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

Written by a scholar-practitioner with over four decades of experience, this book is an accessible introduction to land tenure and its implications for African development.

The book carries a clear warning: intensifying conflict over land across Africa is not the growing pains of a positive evolution in land tenure, but a problem that can only get worse without the state’s recognition of customary tenure systems when undertaking tenure reform. The author reviews Africa’s experience of evolution in customary land tenure and the often-difficult experience of the new nation in land tenure reform, including the failure to prevent further loss of land by rural populations and the unwitting contribution of some reform elements to that loss. The book has a broad reach across many countries in Africa and many different types of land, including farmland, pastures and rangelands, and forests. It is complemented by insights from a variety of disciplines to provide an accessible but nuanced introduction to a topic not well understood even in some development circles. While it focuses on Africa, the book is highly relevant to many countries of the developing world that have a common heritage of colonialism and dualistic systems of land tenure.

This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners wanting to understand the role of law and land tenure in African development.

By: John W. Bruce
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9781032759692
ISBN 10: 1032759690
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 04 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John W. Bruce is a scholar-practitioner who has worked on land policy and law in developing countries for over 50 years. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer legal advisor to the Ministry of Land Reform in Ethiopia and has worked for the Ford Foundation in Sudan and the World Bank, where he served as Senior Counsel and Senior Land Tenure Specialist for the Rural Development Department. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was later African Program Coordinator, and then Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Land Tenure Center, an interdisciplinary center of excellence on land tenure in the Global South.