Land tenure put to the test in DR Congo

This book is the essential summary of a Thesis based on the classical and traditional origins of the land problems and conflicts that litter and punctuate the contemporary Congolese land registry. This Thesis provides an explicit explanation of the land-related dramas that are a daily occurrence in the towns and cities of the DR Congo today. It reveals the major flaw that makes Congolese land law redhibitory. The latter is based purely on European principles and takes no account of the realities of the indigenous Congolese people, by including in its stipulations facts that run counter to the habits and customs of the DR Congo: for example, by defining land as state property and a commodity for sale, whereas local tradition considers it to be a common ancestor and a bond uniting the natives.