Bøger af Alla Kane

Land tenure is the day-to-day expression of the intimate relationship between man and land; of the rights that man has exercised over it throughout time and space, and of their conservation, publication and safeguard against the incessant assaults of the selfish interests of the men who fight over them.In this first quarter of the twenty-first century, these rights are still characterized by conflict, which continues to grow in Senegal, a highly disputed area because it has become a political, economic, social and cultural issue.How did it come to pass that land disputes are now a daily headline in local newspapers? To find the answer to this question, we need to take a chronological look at Senegal's land policies and regimes over the course of its history.In the beginning, it was fire and axe; today, it's DSCOS (Direction pour la Surveillance et le Contrôle de l'Occupation des Sols) and tear gas grenades.

As part of a program of ideological training for its members, the leadership of the "Front National de Salut Public/MOM SA REW" party asked me to prepare a course on the political history of Senegal for its militants. I responded favorably to this request, with the immense pleasure of having, in so doing, to open and lead a debate on the politics of our country through the different ages that have succeeded one another, feeding off one another up to the political landscape that Senegal offers us at the start of the 21st century. To understand the ins and outs of politics as it manifests itself today, I propose to go back in time as far as possible to unearth the roots that have grown through the centuries to give rise to the tree that is Senegal today, in this West Africa evolving in a world that has become a global village. In other words, we're going to try to understand the present by questioning the most distant past possible. To understand and explain the dynamics of the historical process that gave rise to the Senegal of today.