Landrights and the politics of belonging in West Africa



International workshop at the University of Frankfurt/M., 3-5 October 2002
Westend Campus, Grüneburgplatz 1
Casino, First Floor, Room 1.812

Programme


Thursday, 3 October 2002

10:00 Opening remarks: Carola Lentz
10:30 Sara Berry, Privatization and the politics of belonging in West Africa
11:15 Philippe Lavigne-Delville, Is decentralised management of natural resources possible in the Sahel ? Plurality of norms, competition and local governance
12:00 Volker Stamm, New trends in West African land legislation?
12:45 Lunch break
14:30 Andreas Dafinger & Michaela Pelican, Landrights and changing identities: a comparative paper on the policies of formal land allotment to pastoral groups in north-west Cameroon and Burkina Faso
15:15 Youssouf Diallo, The land-use of the Fulbe and the politics of belonging among the Senufo (northern Côte d'Ivoire)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Katja Werthmann, Gold diggers, earth priests and district heads: land rights and gold-mining in south-western Burkina Faso
17:15 Bruno Sanou, The allotment of building land in Bobo Dioulasso: town development and the ideology of autochthony
18:00 Christian Lund, Who owns Bolgatanga? Issues of urban property in Northern Ghana
19:00 Reception


Friday, 4 October 2002

9:00 Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Moral economy and contractual agreements between autochthones and migrants: patron-client relations in a plantation agriculture (Gban region, Côte d'Ivoire)
9:45 Stefano Boni, Indigenous blood and foreign labour: the ancestralisation of landrights in the West African forest belt
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Kojo Amanor, Community landrights and mobile labour networks in the Eastern Region of Ghana
11:45 Pierre Yves Le Meur, Locality, land, mobility in central Benin. The case of Gbanlin
12:30 Lunch break
14:30 Richard Kuba, Earth priests and access to land in rural south-western Burkina Faso
15:15 Sten Hagberg, Money, ritual and the politics of belonging in land transactions in Burkina Faso
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Carola Lentz, First-comers and late-comers: indigenous theories of land ownership in the West African savanna
7:15 Benjamin Kunbuor, Multiple layers of landrights and land conflicts in the Upper West Region of Ghana


Saturday, 5 October 2002

9:00 Georg Elwert & Ute Siebert, Who owns the forest? Reproductive investment and ownership of forestland in the Bassila region, Benin
9:45 Gareth Austin, Monopoly rights over 'forest rent' and Asante-Northern relations: the state, regional inequality and communal interactions in the 19th and 20th centuries
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 General discussion
13:00 Workshop end


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