Recognition of Customary Tenure Rights in International Law
A tenure system is the way in which ownership of, or rights to, land is regulated. Such systems can be determined by statutes, agreed precedents or by customary norms. In Sub-Saharan Africa, pluralistic legal systems consisting of traditional customary law as well as received law are common. Although immensely important in practice, as roughly 90 percent of the people of poor rural Africa access l