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Sara Berry

Sara Berry is a Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She has done research on land, development, agrarian change and socio-economic history in sub-Saharan Africa with emphasis on Ghana and Nigeria. Publications include No condition is permanent: the social dynamics of agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa (1993), Chiefs know their boundaries: essays on property, power and the past in Asante, 1896-1996 (Heinemann, 2001), “Tomatoes, land and hearsay: property and history in Asante in the time of structural adjustment,” World Development, 25, 8 (1997), and “Privatization and the politics of belonging in West Africa,” in R. Kuba & C. Lentz, eds. Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa (2006).

 

 

 

 

This Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.