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Title: | The effect of registration of title upon customary land rights in Kenya |
Author: | Goldham, Simon |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Law |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 91-111 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | customary law land law land registration |
Abstract: | As a result of the Report of the Working Party on African Land Tenure, 1957-1958, 1958, the Native lands Registration Ordinance was passed in 1959. The Registered Land Act, 1963, repealed are replaced the registration provisions of the Ordinance. Its provisions regarding land adjudication and consolidation were retained by the separate Land Adjudication Act. This act was later re-named the Land Consolidation Act, when the land Adjudication Act, 1968, was passed. After Kenya became independent. the land consolidation and registration programme was seen as playing an important role in the development of rural Kenya and it has been implemented with great vigour. Although it was originally devised in response to a very specific situation in the Kikuyu Land Unit, it now covers virtually all the agricultural areas of the former Native Lands and has recently been extended to the pastoral areas of Masailand. The author considers the way in which customary land rights are dealt with during the land adjudication process among the Luo of Nyabondo Plateau. Notes. |