Community Land: A Critical Socio-Economic Factor To Temper With In Southern Sudan

By James Okuk

Until I have experienced the sensitivity of land tenure and ownership (like Thomas in the bible when he touched the nails’ holes in Jesus’ risen body), I couldn’t imagine that land was so valuable like the human life itself. When I use to see (as a child) some elders quarrelling over the borders of their villages and demarcation of their farms, I thought it was a simple thing like our children case when we constantly pinch and fought each other during interactions and plays. Even during my Primary, Secondary and Tertiary education, I just regarded ‘Land’ as a simple factor of socio-economic production along side with ‘Capital’, ‘Labour’ and ‘Market’. I was wrong!

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