The Introduction and Evolution of Private Landed Property in Kenya

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Title:	The Introduction and Evolution of Private Landed Property in Kenya
Author:	Kiamba, Makau
Year:	1989
Periodical:	Development and Change
Volume:	20
Issue:	1
Period:	January
Pages:	121-147
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	dual economy real property agricultural development land law Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade colonialism History and Exploration Politics and Government
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1989.tb00342.x
Abstract:	This article explores the introduction, evolution and elaborate protection of private landed property in Kenya as part of the larger process of the introduction of the capitalist mode of production. This process resulted in the dissolution, or at least transformation, of African customary land relations and their conversion into a form compatible with capitalist development. It is shown that the land tenure reforms of the 1930s-1950s were a part of the wider role of the State in the management of social or class contradictions, aimed to secure a cohesion that was to ensure the successful transition from the colonial to a postcolonial social formation. In securing this cohesion, the State maintained the social conditions that were necessary for, and facilitative of, the reproduction of the dominant mode of production. Bibliogr., notes, ref.