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Urban land conflicts and community responses in Africa: Violence, justice and everyday resistance

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  • Dr Seun Bamidele
Dr Seun Bamidele
Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
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Published 2026-05-07

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  • urban,
  • land conflict ,
  • Africa,
  • urbanization,
  • class,
  • race,
  • gender,
  • cities
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“Urban land conflicts and community responses in Africa: Violence, justice and everyday resistance: Konflikty o ziemię miejską i reakcje społeczności w Afryce. Przemoc, sprawiedliwość i codzienny opór” (2026) Archives of Criminology, p. 22 pp. doi:10.7420/AK2026.02.
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Abstract

Urban land conflicts in African cities are shaped not only by rapid urbanisation and sociopolitical inequality, but also by organised and everyday forms of violence, including evictions, land grabs and coercive interventions by state and non-state actors. While much scholarship has examined formal policies, tenure insecurity and informal urban expansion, less attention has been given to community-led strategies for navigating these conflicts. Drawing on documented cases, secondary sources and existing scholarship, this paper examines how urban communities – often marginalised along lines of class, race and gender – respond to land contestation through collective action, local arbitration and everyday placemaking. Using critical and decolonial perspectives, I analyse how historical processes of dispossession, neoliberal land reforms and state disinvestment produce layered forms of urban land precarity. By focussing on documented grassroots responses, the study highlights both the creative, context-specific knowledge that communities contribute to conflict resolution and the forms of violence they face, linking urban land disputes to broader debates on criminality, victimisation and social control. This approach contributes to comparative criminology by situating African urban experiences within global discussions of urban governance, grassroots resilience and transformative justice.

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