Introduction: a golden pendulum -- Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile -- Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy -- Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper -- Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty -- Untying a package deal : borrowing green...

Interventions in this small impoverished West African nation have been based mainly on credit ( debt ). Public and private lending institutions have failed dramatically, with the resultant mounting debts. Yet, lenders continue extending loans into the countryside. The author suggests that there...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 Sand and Gold: Some Property History and Theory -- CHAPTER 3 Luo and Others: Migration, Settlement, Ethnicity -- CHAPTER 4 An Earthly Anchorage: Graves and the Grounding of Belonging -- CHAPTER 5 Birthright...

Intro -- Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: A Golden Pendulum -- BROTHERS AND OTHERS: OLD DEBATES, NEW TWISTS -- CHAPTER 2. Context for Credit: A Setting at...