Mambo : The Fora of Public Action in Kenya: The National Land Policy

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21 Février 2015

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21 Juin 2017

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21 Février 2015

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Mambo
IFRA Nairobi
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Kenya

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Afrique

Introduction

"We want a fair system of access to land for the future and justice for the wrongs of the past". This is one of thirteen verbatims quoted in the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission's (CKRC) first published report in 2002. The Commission was appointed in 2000 by President Daniel arap Moi. The struggle for constitutional reform in Kenya had actually begun in the late 1980s, pulling together individuals and organizations from different sectors of Kenyan society in reaction to the authoritarian nature of Moi's regime.

Owing to patronage construct of state land allocations, the land sector was indeed instrumental in building Moi's authoritative power. The pressure exerted from below ultimately forced the executive into discussing structural reforms. Non state actors in Kenya therefore played a critical role in propelling the restructuring of the state. In fact, without the determination of CSOs Kenya would probably have neither a National Land Policy (NLP) nor an entire chapter in the Constitution dedicated to land issues. The financial and moral support by international donors was, undeniably, a crucial factor in the scope and success of this mobilization. Although they progressed at very different speeds, the reform of the land sector and the revision of the Constitution have been entangled. They occurred during the same period and, most importantly, land policies have substantially informed Kenya's state building since colonialism. The path dependency of Kenyan property rights institutions is critical in understanding the Kenyan land struggle. The colonial strategy of domination through dispossession of communities' land was somehow perpetuated by the postcolonial elite, which made of land a resource to build patronage networks. Kenya's governments "have used their discretionary powers over land allocation [...] as an instrument of distributive politics", and the practice of "land grants from above" constituted the basis of the ethnicization of politics until it reached a crisis point that made policy intervention almost inevitable.

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Par Francesca Di Matteo, is a PhD student in the SocioAnthropology of Public Action at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) of Marseille, under the supervision of Philippe Lavigne-Delville, Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at GRED/IRD.

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