Violent Land Disputes in Igbo land in Elech Amadi’s The Concubine, Their Educational, Traditional Resolutions’

Abstract

This paper investigated violent land disputes in Igbo land by Elechi Amadi the concubine; education and traditional resolutions. This study is descriptive therefore, descriptive survey research was used to find out various land disputes in Igbo land. Lands are economic resources for building and Agriculture. Land could generate conflicts when not properly shared, pledged or leased out without recourse for the owner or owners redeeming them for long period of time. Majority of families in Igbo land have family lands, they also share communal lands and make use of resources that come from those lands. Violent land conflicts have caused devastations, loss of human lives at various quarters in Igbo land. Myriads of communal conflicts over lands decades ago have constrained development in some communities and villages in Igbo land. It has thus retarded infrastructural developments planned by different successive government in Igbo land. Numerous land conflicts evidenced in some communities in Igbo land have in no small measure devastated manufacturers of industrial products situating in Igbo land thus, causing relocation of industries to other states in Nigeria. Igbo man is meant to inhabit graze or forage on lands inherited on bought by his own money but frowns at trespasses on his land. It was recommended from this study that government should stop incessant killings during land disputes. This would enable innocent people especially travelers along the roads that connects various communities in disputes to go about their normal businesses without being killed or molested. It was suggested from this study that more studies on land disputes should cut across other states in Nigeria. This would enable people know about the various forms of land disputes in Nigeria.