cooperation with mother nature at all levels of human endeavour.
32 There are chances
that African feminism can create a conducive environment which in the long run may
bring about sustainable utilization of African land and soils by women and men,
citizens and non-citizens.
The basis for this reasoning is that under the African motherism perspective,
women are equated to nature, which is perceived as caring, and motherly.
33 The
motherism perspective is valuable because within its purview, nature cannot be
degraded to a worthless component of human existence. Moreover, women constitute the largest percentage of persons that harness land in Africa.
34 As a matter of
fact, most households in Africa and Uganda in particular, depend on the soil and are
dependent on rain-fed agriculture as their main source of income.
35 The agricultural
sector employs over three-quarters of the active labour force. Eighty three percent of
Uganda’s women are employed in the agriculture sector. Only seventy one percent
of men are employed in the same sector.
36 Equal rights to land and soil rights,
therefore, become a pre-requisite to sustainable development based on harnessing
the soil.
In reality, the socio-legal stratification of society occurs because the ideology of
patriarchy is a system of oppressive power relations that reorganizes society into
sections of the privileged and under-privileged, based on privileged supremacy.
37
Sectionalism necessarily discriminates against the less privileged members of society in various aspects.
38 In such a problematic social order, the mothers, and
non-citizens have fewer opportunities to access soil rights both under customary or
the legal tenurial systems in their individual rights.
39 African feminism, has created a
strong base of women agency that resists oppression of the ideology of patriarchy.
Women, have, hence, through their agency, been able to gain a fair deal in accessing
land, and hence access soil rights under the existing land tenure regime.
40
Women’s agency encompasses the revolutionary power of women to rebel
against the existing socio-legal constructed land tenurial systems.
41 Non-citizens
have equally been able to acquire long term leaseholds and large chunks of land and
hence are able to exercise some degree of sustainable utilization of land and soil,
because they are not threatened by imminent land evictions.
Through their agency informed by African feminism perspective, women in
Uganda have for example influenced constitutional reforms. For example, Article
32 Nkealah (2016).
33 Walker (1995).
34 Slavchevska et al. (2016).
35 Asiimwe (2001).
36 Okonya and Kroschel (2014).
37 German (1981).
38 Ahmed (1999).
39 Busingye (2017).
40 Namubiru-Mwaura (2014).
41 Chopra and Mülle (2016).
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32 There are chances
that African feminism can create a conducive environment which in the long run may
bring about sustainable utilization of African land and soils by women and men,
citizens and non-citizens.
The basis for this reasoning is that under the African motherism perspective,
women are equated to nature, which is perceived as caring, and motherly.
33 The
motherism perspective is valuable because within its purview, nature cannot be
degraded to a worthless component of human existence. Moreover, women constitute the largest percentage of persons that harness land in Africa.
34 As a matter of
fact, most households in Africa and Uganda in particular, depend on the soil and are
dependent on rain-fed agriculture as their main source of income.
35 The agricultural
sector employs over three-quarters of the active labour force. Eighty three percent of
Uganda’s women are employed in the agriculture sector. Only seventy one percent
of men are employed in the same sector.
36 Equal rights to land and soil rights,
therefore, become a pre-requisite to sustainable development based on harnessing
the soil.
In reality, the socio-legal stratification of society occurs because the ideology of
patriarchy is a system of oppressive power relations that reorganizes society into
sections of the privileged and under-privileged, based on privileged supremacy.
37
Sectionalism necessarily discriminates against the less privileged members of society in various aspects.
38 In such a problematic social order, the mothers, and
non-citizens have fewer opportunities to access soil rights both under customary or
the legal tenurial systems in their individual rights.
39 African feminism, has created a
strong base of women agency that resists oppression of the ideology of patriarchy.
Women, have, hence, through their agency, been able to gain a fair deal in accessing
land, and hence access soil rights under the existing land tenure regime.
40
Women’s agency encompasses the revolutionary power of women to rebel
against the existing socio-legal constructed land tenurial systems.
41 Non-citizens
have equally been able to acquire long term leaseholds and large chunks of land and
hence are able to exercise some degree of sustainable utilization of land and soil,
because they are not threatened by imminent land evictions.
Through their agency informed by African feminism perspective, women in
Uganda have for example influenced constitutional reforms. For example, Article
32 Nkealah (2016).
33 Walker (1995).
34 Slavchevska et al. (2016).
35 Asiimwe (2001).
36 Okonya and Kroschel (2014).
37 German (1981).
38 Ahmed (1999).
39 Busingye (2017).
40 Namubiru-Mwaura (2014).
41 Chopra and Mülle (2016).
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