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home > fellows' stories > spring 2004 > namibia

This Land is Ours
Who should own Namibia's farms?

by Sarah Colt, Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of FRONTLINE/World

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Namibia's leaders -- who fought a long war against South African apartheid-style occupation, winning independence in 1990 -- are committed to redistributing land in a country where there is still a vast disparity in land ownership. Whites make up only about 6 percent of Namibia's 1.8 million people but own most of the arable land, including the flower farm and the cattle ranch that Sarah Colt features in her film.

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