In the next few years, he will study customary land governance, rural migration, foreign investment, and sustainable land use and natural resource management. “He has passionately supported a number of communities in different counties in Liberia to satisfy the requirements prescribed by the Land Rights Act to formalize their customary land rights. By then, the Liberia Land Authority was the newly formed Land Commission. “[Ali Kaba] is a pioneer of the whole process that is laid out in the customary land formalization,” Siakor said. James Yarsiah of the Rights and Rice Foundation and member of the Civil Society Land Rights Working Group, who alongside Kaba led a sustained campaign in three years for the passage into the Land Rights Act, said he was a “mentor and ideologue in the quest for land rights.” He said nothing could have been achieved without Kaba.

Source: Front Page Africa September 09, 2020 04:07 UTC