Women's strategies for customary land access in Swaziland and Malawi: a comparative study.

In most African countries, the land-access and use rights of rural populations have been undergoing considerable changes in recent years, primarily due to informal developments in customary land law at the village level and formal legislative changes in land law at the national level. This paper compares the informal developments, as concerns women's land access, that are occurring in one village of the patrilineal Swazi of Swaziland with those occurring in one village of the matrilineal Chewa of Malawi.

In particular, it focuses on two case studies in which a Swazi woman and a ...

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