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• W1569668571 abstract "Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. By Steven Pierce. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 262. $55.00. Issues relating to land tenure have received attention for close to a hundred years. For northern Nigeria, the area of this study, the cliche is that land belongs to the emir, a point that this book debunks as no more than a misleading ideology. In the attempt to transform so-called indigenous economies into modern ones, changes in land tenure became one of the central agenda points of British rule in Nigeria. Since colonial rule ended in 1960, successive regimes have sought the means to transfer land from small-scale holders to rich, largely urban-based landlords. A far-reaching land-use decree was enacted by the military regime between 1975 and 1981. What Pierce has succeeded in achieving in this book is to shift the focus of discussion from the policy changes that affected ownership to broader issues of colonial power and control of farmers. Law became the agency to formulate and mediate political relations between the millions of poor farmers, their local overlords, and the powerful white colonial officers. An astute rereading of colonial sources and materials on land tenure enables Pierce to move discussion away from issues of land commercialization to that of the role of indirect rule - according to him, the British successfully used land tenure to collect taxes from the masses and to govern them with a minimum amount of violence. A major component of the book, and arguably the richest, is the Western bias of the law and the legal institutions that were established. In cogent presentations, he systematically lays out the flaws in the formulation of new laws, in the context of alleged awareness of precolonial traditions, but which were actually transforming society such that the needs and rights of poor farmers were ignored. His extensive ethnographic data obtained at Ungogo, Kano, reveal a rich body of local knowledge that conceptualized land differently than did the colonial state. Contrasting and comparing the colonial views on land with those of the Ungogo, we see how the colonial state misconstrued issues of ownership and formulated laws to suit its own political agenda. As the chapters unfold, covering issues of traditional power and land, access and uses of land, inheritances, taxation and public litigations, two large bodies of ideas emerge. The first is the way in which people negotiated their rights to land. Here, we see many similarities with other parts of Nigeria, and we can connect what Pierce says with previous studies. …" @default.
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