Beyond a recount of national struggles over land: “Securing land rights: Communal land reform in Namibia” by Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa

U. E. Chigbu
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The poor governance of land has long been identified as a significant setback to local development and the resilience of societies in Africa (Kuusaana et al., 2021). Land – including its associated natural resources, such as water, minerals, and forests – is central to local development activities in many natural resource dependent societies. It is a source of community heritage, group and individual livelihoods options, the basis for environmental health, and communal identities. Wherever they occurred, historical land dispossessions have desta-bilized societies’ resilience (Throne, 2021). This is the situation in Namibia – a country where the privileges earned from historical land dispossession coexists with the sufferings of the dispossessed. The scope of land reform needed to reduce the negative societal consequences of the historical injustices caused by colonial land injustices and neocolonial land governance laxities is ever increasing. Probing such historical dispossessions of land has always allowed scholars to understand the best possible ways to reform the experiences people have faced in the past to better the future. Hence, the search for multifaceted tools (or approaches or strategies or methods) to ensure that current and emerging land reforms address these challenges in ways that quickly respond to local realities through fit-for-purpose land administration (Chigbu, Bendzko, Mabakeng, Kuusaana, & Tutu, 2021). However, no scholar has painstakingly investigated the communal land reform (and its associated societal challenges) in Namibia more than Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa (hereafter called the author). In this book, the author provides excellent documentation of Namibia’s land reform beyond what has become the mere recount of the country’s national struggles over land access, land (re)distribution, and security of land tenure. Concerning its raison d’être
除了对国家土地斗争的叙述之外,还有罗米·温基·奈特维勒克瓦的《确保土地权利:纳米比亚的公共土地改革》
长期以来,土地治理不善一直被认为是非洲地方发展和社会复原力的重大挫折(Kuusaana et al., 2021)。在许多依赖自然资源的社会中,土地——包括与之相关的自然资源,如水、矿产和森林——是地方发展活动的核心。它是社区遗产、群体和个人生计选择的来源,是环境健康和社区身份的基础。无论发生在哪里,历史上的土地剥夺都破坏了社会的复原力(Throne, 2021)。这就是纳米比亚的情况- -在这个国家,从历史上的土地剥夺中获得的特权与被剥夺者的痛苦共存。为减少由殖民土地不公正和新殖民主义土地管理宽松所造成的历史不公正所造成的消极社会后果,需要进行土地改革的范围正在不断扩大。探究这种历史上对土地的剥夺,总是能让学者们了解改革人们过去所面临的经历以改善未来的最佳途径。因此,需要寻求多方面的工具(或方法、战略或方法),以确保当前和新兴的土地改革能够通过符合目的的土地管理,以快速响应当地现实的方式应对这些挑战(Chigbu, Bendzko, Mabakeng, Kuusaana, & Tutu, 2021)。然而,没有哪个学者比Romie Vonkie nighitevelekwa(以下简称作者)更深入地研究了纳米比亚的公共土地改革(及其相关的社会挑战)。在这本书中,作者提供了纳米比亚土地改革的优秀文献,而不仅仅是对该国在土地获取、土地(再)分配和土地使用权安全方面的国家斗争的叙述。关于其理由être
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