EDITOR'S NOTES
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1954.tb00045.x |
| Date | 01 April 1954 |
| Published date | 01 April 1954 |
JOURNAL
OF
AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION
VOLUME
VI
)lUMBER
2
APRIL,
195+
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ED1TOR'S NOTES
WEare
pleased to publish as
our
first article a
paper
on land
tenure
and
regIstration which gives a comprehensive and vividly clear approach to
the
subject.
It~
~uthor,
S. R. Simpson, who is a Barrister-at-Law,
until
recently was Com-
mISSIOner
of
Lands
and
Registrar-General in the
Sudan.
He
served as a political
officer for seventeen years before transferring to
the
Sudan
Legal
Department
and last year was appointed to the Colonial Office to specialise in African land
!enure
problems.
Our
intention in publishing this article is to stimulate interest
III
the subject, and we invite readers to send in any criticism
and
suggestions
they
may have. Material intended for publication should be limited to
about
three
thousand words.
Readers will recall
that
C. A. G.
\rallis,
in the issue of
january,
1953, discussed
the
part
which local authorities in Africa should play in maintaining law and
?rder.
The
second article in this issue describes some of the recent legislation
in this connection
and
draws attention to the importance of the
proper
relationship
between local police forces and elected councils.
.
~.
j.
Brooke is the
author
of the recent reports on the native
court
systems in
N~geria,
extracts
of
which we published in the issues of April and
July
last year.
HIS article on the changing character of customary courts is in
part
his retlections
On
the
findings of
the
recent Judicial Advisers Conference.
The
record of this
Conference was issued in October, 1
()S3,
as a special
supplement
to the
JOlll'l1al.
.With
the
rapid
growth of towns in Africa, many councils arc
concerne~1
to-day
III
slum clearance and in preventing resettlement areas from degenerating
into
sl,ums.
The
methods
employed in
Khartoum
as described by A, J. V.
Arthur,
~lrnsc1f
largelv responsible fo'r the operation, will he
of
interest to those engaged
In
similar schemes. elsewhere.
,\V~
arc grateful to
Mrs.
Dobson, whose husband. is a deputy. provincial con:-
,~ISsloncr
in Tanganyika, for
her
useful comparative
study
of land
tenure
111
Ianganyika. '
19Will,
rcader~
,note
that
two corrections
should
be
made
to,
th~
la~t
(J
anu~ry,
54)
ISSue.
I he footnote on page 21 m
the
form of an editorial explanation,
should
more
properly
have read: "
The
ivriruka chiefs were
~t
t~at
time
the
lowest
rank of officially recognised chiefs."
The
second
~orrectlO,n
IS
hal~
":ay down
P~ge.
36
where
the initials
A.D.C.
were expanded
mto
ASSIstant DIstrict Com-
~ISSloner.
Although even the very general reader, for whose benefit
the
full
tItle Was
added,
will doubtless
ha\"~
spotted
this editorial ,error
an~
c1e~red
the
author of
the
gross indignity bv
substituting
African District Council,
WIll
those
Who
h
~
~,.
{
aVe
not yet
amended
their
copy please ( 0so.
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