#colonial-dispossession

#colonial-dispossession

This development also exposes a deeper contradiction embedded in the global order governing land and property rights in former settler colonies: European claims arising from postcolonial redistribution are treated as urgent, enforceable and respectable, while African claims arising from colonial dispossession remain largely outside the same legal and moral framework. The colonial dispossession that created white land ownership in Rhodesia never received the same urgency as the one now directed at restoring European cla