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Land use rights and gender in Ovamboland, north-central Namibia, since the 1930sarticle 2009 • Siiskonen, Harri
Ovambo • Africa > Southern Africa
This examination of changes in the traditional Ovambo land tenure system focuses on the property and inheritance rights of women. The distribution of those rights and associated duties within matrilineal lineages favored male members at the expense o...