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Whose Land Is It Anyway? The failure of land law reform in Kenya

01 Aug 2015

Niki Wolfe

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Land is a “key fault line” in Kenya. Throughout East Africa land law reform has been pursued at the expense of substantive land reform. New laws have not been redistributive or transformative in a positive way.