Masaai pastoralists preparing their maize harvest in Narok, Kenya.
Land Ownership a Far Cry for African Women
Despite the critical role women play in subsistence agriculture, African customary laws still prevent them from owning land.-
Africa: Customary Law Still Bars Women's Access to Land
IPS, 30 September 2010
Regina Namukasa has been twice dispossessed - first when her husband died and his clan left her out when dividing up his estate, and again when she was denied a share in her… Read more »
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Zambia: Empower Women to Inherit Property, Says Legal Body
Times of Zambia, 18 September 2010
THE Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) has said women who marry under customary law should have a right to inherit property, receive support in form of maintenance and to be… Read more »
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Kenya: Orengo Tells Women to Lay Claim on Land
Nation, 14 September 2010
Women have been urged to seize the opportunity presented by the new Constitution and lay claim to their land rights. Read more »
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Uganda: Only Seven Percent of Women Own Land - Study
New Vision, 21 June 2010
Women in Uganda lack access to productive land, even though 80% of them are engaged in agriculture, a study by Actionaid, an international anti-poverty agency has revealed. Read more »
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Kenya: Lobby Faults Women's Position On Land
Nation, 21 May 2010
A section of Kenya's women leaders Friday accused their colleagues of misinterpreting the land provisions in the proposed Constitution. Read more »
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Kenya: Land Owners Conspiring to Deny Women Rights in Draft Law Debate
Nation, 7 May 2010
On Sunday we celebrate Mother's Day. While honouring our grandmothers, mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, Kenyan men should ponder on the gains that will be made by our women… Read more »
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Tanzania: Land Rights Education Empowers Kisarawe Women
Daily News, 1 April 2010
THERE is a significant sense of change among women's lives in Kisarawe following public education on their land rights, saving them from cultures and traditions which had confined… Read more »
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Senegal: Individual Land Control Linked to Women's Empowerment
MediaGlobal, 18 March 2010
Women in Senegal face immense obstacles to individual land acquisition and control. Land inaccessibility is a problem that leads to limitations on women's economic productivity and… Read more »
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Nigeria: Women Want Review of Land Use Act
Daily Trust, 9 March 2010
Women groups in Yobe State on Monday gathered in Damaturu and called on the state government to review its Land Use Act and other laws related to it in order to encourage mass… Read more »
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Botswana: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women's Access to Land
IPS, 9 March 2010
Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together… Read more »
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Eswatini: Property Rights at Last for Women
IPS, 5 March 2010
A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names. Read more »
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Kenya: Culture Bid to Inherit from Dead Relatives
Nation, 20 January 2010
For four long years, Mama Hellen Achieng's farm remained fallow, not because she had no energy to till it, but tradition forbade her from doing so. First, she had to conduct the… Read more »
