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

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.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.

John W. Bruce is a scholar-practitioner who has worked on land policy and law in developing countries for over fifty 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 developing countries.