Neo-customary land delivery systems and the rise of community-mediated settlements in peri-urban Enugu, Nigeria

Onyebueke, Victor; Ikejiofor, Cosmas

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“…Unlike Turok (2016) and scholars like Berrisford & McAuslan (2017) and Bartels (2019), who take a basically 'encroachment' approach to tenure-related conflict, Allen et al (2015) and Agheyisi (2019a), for example, espouse a more systematic approach characterised by pervading rural-urban flows and interactions for reciprocal benefits. By bringing together in sharp relief some contrasting and unequal attributes of urban and rural worldstenure systems, laws, institutions, and authorities -urbanisation interfaces with the urban land market to set the stage for the neocustomary tenure system (Onyebueke & Ikejiofor, 2017;Agheyisi, 2019aAgheyisi, , 2019b. In what Agheyisi (2019a, p. 532) described as "socio-cultural environment of urban land market and local power relations", local communities and other stakeholders, such as public planning agencies, and private developers, interact for mutual benefits and exchanges.…”

Section: Shifting Rural-urban Interface Urban Encroachment and Tenure-related Conflictsmentioning

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“…while in others, they are juxtaposed with their statutory equivalents in form of legal pluralism (Otto & Hoekema, 2012;Berrisford & McAuslan, 2017;Bah, et al, 2018, p. 111). Possibly in most peri-urban contexts, they are witnessing a neo-customary turn -the increasingly adaption to land market pressures through community co-produced land subdivisions with assorted socio-economic and institutional transformations (Onyebueke & Ikejiofor, 2017;Chimhowu, 2019). According to Berrisford & McAuslan (2017):…”

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“…In the territory now known as Nigeria, diverse systems of unwritten but practical rules of rights and obligations pertaining to land ownership and use had existed among different ethnicities long before British colonisation. With the advent of colonial administration, the statutory or formal tenure system was introduced exclusively for designated urban areas between 1861 and 1917 (see Onyebueke & Ikejiofor, 2017). This phase coincided with enactments that put the defunct Lagos borrowing) without permitting land alienation to non-natives (Dike, 1983).…”

Section: Origins Of Nigeria's Dual Tenure System and Customary-statutory Conflictsmentioning

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Urbanisation-induced displacements in peri-urban areas: Clashes between customary tenure and statutory practices in Ugbo-Okonkwo Community in Enugu, Nigeria

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Rapid urbanisation is precipitating wide-ranging and often irreversible changes in cities and at the shifting peri-urban areas around the world. As a significant factor of change in the 21 st Century, urbanisation is irreversibly transforming everything on its path-air, land, water, and ecology, including institutions, customs, and lifestyles. The subject scope of urbanisation research is therefore quite wide and diverse. Yet, urbanisation-induced attritions and substitutions of customary tenure practices, coupled with the associated politics and resistances, remain utterly overlooked. Using a mixed method approach (involving desktop research, remote sensing data and stakeholder interviews), this paper examines the clashes between customary tenure regime and statutory practices dictated by urban laws, and how different stakeholders are appropriating them both to promote and resist displacement or eviction. Amidst growing encroachment pressures on peri-urban communities in Nigerian cities, a new imperative for enhanced tenure security and integrated planning approach are proposed.

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Urbanisation-induced displacements in peri-urban areas: Clashes between customary tenure and statutory practices in Ugbo-Okonkwo Community in Enugu, Nigeria

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“…Thus in one of the cases in Enugu for which we undertook primary research, residents of a low income community (Ugbo Okonkwo) who were threatened with eviction for nonconformity with the Enugu masterplan, were deemed ineligible for compensated displacement (involuntary resettlement) by the ECTDA (Enugu Capital Territory District Administration) due to their lack of CoO, despite characterising themselves as customary/ established land and property owners. This issue must be understood in a context where information regarding tenure is patchy, inaccessible and hard to secure (Onyebueke & Ikejiofor, 2017). Furthermore, CoOs are expensive, difficult to register and, as such, out of reach for many urban citizens and particularly for the poor.…”

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Displacement and the public interest in Nigeria: contesting developmental rationales for displacement

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The displacement of urban households and livelihoods by state institutions is typically justified on the basis of the developmental purposes of land clearance, purportedly in the public interest. However conflicts around such displacement highlight both the contested nature of the 'public interest' and the unequal position that different urban actors are in to shape consensus about what this should constitute. This paper draws on research into the relationship between urban infrastructure development and displacement in Nigeria, to explore how actors negotiate their positions vis a vis displacement through a range of knowledge practices.Displacement and the public interest in Nigeria: Contesting the legitimacy of displacement through knowledge practices.The use of the 'public interest' as a criteria to determine the legitimacy of development induced displacement is widespread, but also problematic in view of both the multiple, and unequally positioned 'publics' involved, and of the contested visions of development which underlie notions of this notion.This tension is thrown into particular relief in the case of Nigeria, where, the notion of the public interest is placed at the heart of the Land Use Act of 1978, which is the chief legal instrument governing compulsory land acquisition (and thus development induced displacement) in the country. However this Act and its associated legal instruments lack clarity on what would constitute the public interest, beyond very broad criteria related to public ownership. This means that in practice the public interest nature of projects causing displacement is debated outside of the legal system, between actors in very different positions to articulate their positions.This paper draws on a research project focused on the linkages between urban infrastructure projects and displacement in Nigeria, to explore how groups involved urban infrastructure projects have used different knowledge practices to promote competing interpretations of the public interest nature of these projects. By 'knowledge practices' we mean the ways in which various actors use, control, and shape different forms of knowledge towards competing outcomes.

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“…One of the most outstanding challenges facing urban planning today -mainly in, but not limited to, the Global South-is how to cope with rapid urbanisation, inequality, informality, and environmental degradation (Parnell, Pieterse and Watson, 2009;Watson and Odendaal, 2012;Song, 2016). In "informal cities" of Africa, planning norms and procedures, many of which are relics of colonial pasts, often run counter to the (informal) everyday city-building practices (Watson, 2009(Watson, , 2011Nielsen, 2015a, 2015b;Onyebueke and Ikejiofor, 2017). Informality or the "state of exception from the formal order of urbanisation" (Roy, 2005, p. 147) vis-à-vis informal livelihoods, settlements, and practices often conflicts with planning rationality thereby limiting both the capacities of planners and the effective reach of plans to tackle these affected urban challenges.…”

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Difusión y adopción del concepto de informalidad en la pedagogía de la planificación: reflexiones desde una escuela de planificación nigeriana

Onyebueke

2018

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La eficacia de las ortodoxias tradicionales de planificación se ve cuestionada a diario en muchas ciudades de África y el sur global por sus legados de planificación colonial. Por esta y otras fallas, la planificación urbana aspira a reinventarse a sí misma. Una línea de avance clave ha sido corregir errores del pasado y conceptos erróneos en la disciplina a través de una educación de planificación revitalizada. En medio de la rápida informalización de ciudades en África y en todo el mundo, el artículo busca aprender más sobre la difusión o propagación del concepto de informalidad (es decir, conocimiento y habilidades asociadas) en sistemas globales y nacionales, y sus posibles influencias en la pedagogía de la planificación, en un escuela de esa disciplina. Los resultados muestran que diversas percepciones del concepto de informalidad exhiben diferentes ciclos de difusión en contextos globales y nacionales, dispersos ampliamente en alcance y tiempo entre el aspecto más dominante del “sector informal” y la dimensión menos dominante, pero creciente, de “informalidad urbana”. Aunque persiste la no-informalidad en la educación de la planificación nigeriana, es evidente un nuevo resurgimiento de la informalidad.

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Neo-customary land delivery systems and the rise of community-mediated settlements in peri-urban Enugu, Nigeria

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Urbanisation-induced displacements in peri-urban areas: Clashes between customary tenure and statutory practices in Ugbo-Okonkwo Community in Enugu, Nigeria

Urbanisation-induced displacements in peri-urban areas: Clashes between customary tenure and statutory practices in Ugbo-Okonkwo Community in Enugu, Nigeria

Displacement and the public interest in Nigeria: contesting developmental rationales for displacement

Difusión y adopción del concepto de informalidad en la pedagogía de la planificación: reflexiones desde una escuela de planificación nigeriana

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