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List changes that have taken place in the traditional African understanding of property

List changes that have taken place in the traditional African understanding of property

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gideon
• Women and children may own property today unlike in traditional African communities where
only men would
• Wealth is measured in terms of commercial buildings, types of vehicles, plots and money instead
of livestock, wives and children that mattered them
• Many children and wives are seen as a liability rather than an asset as it was in traditional
African communities
• Acquisition of property is sometimes through unjust and unfair means e.g. grabbing, theft,
corruption e.t.c.
• There is too much stress on individual ownership of property as opposed to communal ownership
in traditional
African community
• Some men sell family property leaving the children with nothing to inherit
gideon1 answered the question on September 28, 2017 at 14:26

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