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An Ethnography of Urban Land Holding and Housing in Bamako, Mali

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The city of Bamako, the Malian capital has witnessed demographic change and spatial sprawl of its urban environment over the last 20 years. The population changes led to the emergence of the so-called "squatter settlements" due to the government's inability to provide for the housing needs of the teeming mass of urban residents. Rather, the state and the local government attempted to regulate the "squatter settlement" phenomenon through bureaucratic policies and urban renewal projects. Yet, the challenge of managing urban land holding and the processes in the provision of housing space in Bamako remain problematic, conflictual and very often violent given the different claims of entitlement to the land. The aim of this paper is twofold: it first describes the chronology of the evolution of the land tenure system and second, from the legal anthropological perspective, provides a description and interpretation of the attitudes and the emical perceptions of actors (protagonists) involved in the policy and processes of urban land tenure in Bamako. Based on empirical case study in Bamako, the paper explores the dynamic factors that have shaped the processes of landholding and management from the last century to the present. The global influences on local structures and the commoditization of land that leads to the discussion of usufruct and appropriation of property are discussed.
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halshs-02018271, version 1 (13-02-2019)

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Lamine Doumbia. An Ethnography of Urban Land Holding and Housing in Bamako, Mali. Actors, Institutions and Change: Perspectives on Africa, 2015. ⟨halshs-02018271⟩
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