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Acknowledgement his book is a revised version of my PhD thesis in law submitted to the Law Faculty at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. I received valuable assistance from many sources in the course of my studies at Rhodes and its revision into a book. I must first express my gratitude to God for sustaining me during my time at Rhodes and at Cambridge University, UK where part of the writing was done as a visiting research fellow at the Centre of African Studies. I am indebted to my supervisor Prof. Richman B Mqeke at Rhodes University for encouraging me to develop an interest in research into the conceptualization of access to land in South Africa as a human right. In addition to his professionalism while supervising this study, his humane approach put me in good stead to complete this work in record time. I am equally grateful to Prof. Francis Nyamnjoh of CODESRIA in Dakar for his valuable assistance during the revision of my thesis into a book. Similarly, I should also thank the anonymous reviewer whose observations and insightful suggestions helped to significantly improve the quality of the book. Special thanks go to the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University for offering me a generous fellowship to do research that gave me the opportunity to access the university’s excellent facilities, meet accomplished scholars and share in the institution’s tradition of excellence. And at a personal level, I must mention the key contribution of my immediate family to the completion of this book. It is thanks to the commitment of my wife Nicol Musi Yanou that I succeeded in completing the study. Apart from her unceasing emotional support, she typed and formatted the entire work. I wish to thank her for the sacrifices she and my children Michael Lobga Yanou, David Tchami Yanou and Dani Yanou endured during my often-long absences from them that were necessitated by the demands of my research. T ...

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