Introduction : land, law, and social welfare -- Colonization and the myth of the customary -- "Under the circumstances, we do what we can" : entrepreneurial bureaucrats and the allocation of property rights -- Property rights enforcement by other means : the role of non-governmental organizations -- Private enforcement of property rights : the demand for specialists in violence -- In search of order : state systems of property rights enforcement and their failings -- Drawing conclusions
Summary
In sub-Saharan Africa, property rights law is an especially potent source of instability. This book is at once an authoritative and powerful account of the central dilemma in Africa, and a prescription for addressing it