Post-colonial land reforms in Africa. Zimbabwe's land resettlement program

Hausarbeit , 2019 , 23 Seiten , Note: 2,7

Politik - Region: Afrika

Since Zimbabwe has gained independence in 1980, the redistribution of land has dictated domestic politics. Former president Robert Mugabe and his party ZANU-PF aimed at redistributing as much land as possible from former colonizers, white people, to formerly oppressed black people. Starting under neo-colonial structures with the Lancaster House Agreement, the land reforms slowly radicalized and ended in the controversial Fast Track reform in 2000. In the process of tackling the land question, many difficulties emerged which will be analysed in this paper.

While many scholars attribute the mistakes of the reforms to Mugabe and the government, it will be argued that there are more exogenous factors that heavily constrained the proper implementation of the land reforms.

Table of content

1. Introduction

2. Background
2.1 Theoretical considerations
2.2 Historical context

3. Land Reform in Zimbabwe
3.1 The Lancaster House Agreement 1979
3.1.1 Results
3.2 The Land Acquisition Act 1992
3.2.1 Results
3.3 The Fast Track Program 2000
3.3.1 Results

4. Conclusion

5. Bibliography

• Hochschule: Università degli studi di Pavia
• Note: 2,7
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Seiten: 23
• Katalognummer: V458186
• ISBN (eBook): 9783668894273
• ISBN (Buch): 9783668894280
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: post-colonial, africa, zimbabwe