Demystifying the Mystery of Capital : Land Tenure and Poverty in Africa and the Caribbean

This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty, urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures.

Introduction: Demystifying 'The Mystery of Capital'; Outside de Soto's Bell Jar: Colonial/Postcolonial Land Law and the Exclusion of The Peri-Urban Poor; Land Readjustment for Peri-Urban Customary Tenure: The Example of Botswana; Inheritance, HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights to Land in Africa; Botswana: 'Self Allocation', 'Accommodation' and 'Zero Tolerance' in Mogoditshane and Old Naledi; Trinidad: 'We Are Not Squatters, We Are Settlers'; Zambia: 'Having A Place of Your Own' in Kitwe; Conclusions.