| Abstract: | In the Sudan the pattern of landownership has hardly changed during the last fifty years, because, in a sense, land reform had taken place during the Anglo-Egyptian administration (1899-1955) in its first years in office. These measures successfully stemmed the growth of an indigenous neo-feudalist class, prevented the dissolution of communal holdings and the appropriation of the land by the tribal chiefs, checked the expropriation of the small free-holders by wealthy landowners, and arrested the alienation of land to Europeans. The environment in which the system of land tenure evolved is examined in the article. First the author describes the system of landownership with which the Arabs replaced that of Christian Nubia, then the innovations introduced by the Funj, the Turks and the Mahdists and how the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium disposed of them. Finally, he assesses the effect of the existing pattern of landholding on the agricultural development. Notes. |
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