Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa: Natives and Strangers

An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa.

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status h...