ABSTRACT
The omission of queer data on land inheritance is a good indication of how well African communities, especially those in rural areas, treat populations that aren’t male, heterosexual or able to reproduce. Constitutions have been amended to empower individuals and end communal land tenure systems. Land tenure in Africa has gradually shifted away from collective to individual land ownership in line with capitalist economic models that took root after the fall of communism in the late 1980s. Inheritance is still the primary channel via which land changes ownership and it is also where the disparity between law and custom, men and women is most manifest. There is a need to queer the issue of land reform and to center those who are traditionally left out of this debate in Africa. Lesbian women are the representatives of the marginalized and the discarded and their struggle for land inheritance should be approached from an intersectional perspective.
