[Peace] Fwd: Noon Seminar Series --- 08-31-05

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI

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> From: Center for African Studies <ecorr at uiuc.edu>
> Date: August 29, 2005 12:39:32 PM CDT
> To: mmcrump at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Noon Seminar Series --- 08-31-05
>
>>
>> The Center for African Studies Presents
>>  the
>>   Noon Seminar Series
>>   Fall 2005
>>
>>
>> Merle L. Bowen
>> Associate Professor of Political Science
>>  and
>>  African American Studies
>>  
>> will discuss
>>  
>> “Reflections on Black Community Land Rights in Mozambique and Brazil”
>>   
>> Wednesday, August 31, 2005
>>  12-1 pm
>>  Room 101, International Studies Building
>>  910 S. Fifth, Champaign
>>   
>>   
>>  This paper examines the new land laws granting black rural 
>> communities land titles in Mozambique and Brazil.  In recent years, 
>> the governments of both countries have passed laws granting 
>> communities collective control over land and other natural 
>> resources.  Mozambique’s new Land Law of 1997 grants user rights and 
>> land titles to individuals, communities and businesses.  Its main 
>> innovation is that land rights can be acquired by local communities.  
>> Similarly, in Brazil, 100 years after the end of slavery, rights to 
>> land for the descendants of fugitive slave communities were promised 
>> in the nation’s 1988 constitution.  However, it is only since 1995, 
>> following presidential decrees and pressure from Afro-Brazilian 
>> activists that some of the more than 1,000-2,000 identified quilombo 
>> communities (maroon settlements) have been granted land titles to 
>> their ancestral lands.  This paper will compare the challenges and 
>> opportunities facing local communities in securing and maintaining 
>> their rights over land. 
>>   
> The Center for African Studies, UIUC
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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