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Widow 'dispossession' in northern Nambian inheritancearticle 2008 • Gordon, Robert J.
Ovambo • Africa > Southern Africa
European missionaries and global human rights organizations alike have argued that customary Ovambo inheritance rules deprive widows and orphans of land rights and other productive assets. Based on ethnographic information, this study suggests that t...