Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

“Jimu’s focus on the everyday life of the social actors involved in the buying and selling of land brings out in ethnographic detail, complexity, and nuance, the arena within which land as social reality is constructed as meaningful experience. The study challenges conventional ideas of value in studies of customary land in Africa… Symbols of legitimation and uneasy articulation of tradition and modernity are a key dimension of this study.”