“Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe”

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Mseba, Admire. “Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe.” Global EnvironmentA Journal of Transdisciplinary History 17, no. 1 (2024): 172–81.

In Zimbabwe, and other former settler colonies, unequal rights to  land  are  broadly  attributed  to  colonial  dispossession  and  racial  inequality. This is for a good reason. Settler colonial states took land from  indigenous  peoples  and  distributed  it  to  white  settlers.  They  also corralled many indigenous peoples in poor, diseased, semi-arid and wretched places that they called native reserve. (From the article)

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