How Long to Read Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa

How Long Does it Take to Read Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa by Carola Lentz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University

How long is Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa?

Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa by Carola Lentz is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa aloud.

What Reading Level is Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa?

Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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