2015
159 pp.
1 colour map of Eritrea, glossary, chronology
Text language: English
An Eritrean Village Reacts to Land Reform examines the roots of the Eritrean government’s land nationalisation policy – decreed in 1994 but never fully implemented – and the reactions of members of that community to that policy. Those reactions were sceptical, even though the people of this community had adopted the Eritrean national identity offered to them by the new state.
Today, as the problems of national liberation and land reform remain unresolved in Eritrea, O’Kane’s book provides new insights into the relationships between land, identity and politics in today’s Africa and today’s world.
CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements / Glossary / List of Acronyms / Chronology
Chapter 1: War and Land Reform in Eritrea – the Roots of one Eritrean Village’s Historical Trajectory
Chapter 2: ‘We cannot be dependent on just the spirit of the revolution’ – Drafting and Implementing the Land Proclamation
Chapter 3: Embaderho, a Peasant Village in the Eritrean Highlands
Chapter 4: Kinship, Mutual Aid and Land Tenure in Embaderho
Chapter 5: Nationalism, War and Community Identities in Embaderho
Chapter 6: The Community and Land Reform in Embaderho
Chapter 7: Understanding Nationalism and Land Reform in Embaderho, Eritrea and the Twenty-first Century World
References
Under these links you will find further studies of Eritrea and land laws in various African countries, of Eritreans in abroad and migration in African countries:
