The Common Wealth
Certain resources belong to all and cannot be privately owned. Water, grazing land, and forests are held in common for community benefit.
Certain resources belong to all and cannot be privately owned. Water, grazing land, and forests are held in common for community benefit.
The water belongs to no one and to everyone. What the earth gives freely, none may hoard.
African Commons
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- What African traditions say about land and belonging
Some things — water, grazing, forest — are held to belong to everyone and to no one, and cannot be privately taken. Belonging to a place here includes a share in what the place gives freely.