THE FORA OF PUBLIC ACTION IN KENYA:FROM THE ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL LAND POLICY TO ITS POLITICIZATION
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2014
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Francesca Di Matteo, « THE FORA OF PUBLIC ACTION IN KENYA:FROM THE ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL LAND POLICY TO ITS POLITICIZATION », HAL-SHS : sciences politiques, ID : 10670/1.1in6gh
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As Ambreena Manji stresses out in a recently published article, the land laws (namely, the Land Act, the Land RegistrationAct and the NLC Act of 2012) “seemed to be almost entirely disconnected from the NLP”.13 Moreover, instead of clarifyingthe mandate of the NLC, the laws left the contentious issues unaddressed. This leaves a grey zone regarding the definitionof whose institution holds the power to manage and allocate public land. Notwithstanding the irresistible grass-root reformmovement, appealing many sectors of Kenyan society and almost unanimously supported by development partners, thelanded oligarchy managed to hold a solid grip on the Kenyan political system, manifesting itself only when necessary to tiltthe balance in its favor.