Brief notes on the system of land tenure in the Republic of Chad

As in many of the States of Equatorial-Africa, Chad's system of public

and private land tenure is based on the French decree of 28 March 1699 and on the subsequent modifying texts. This system has not been very successful and Africans have proudly clung on to their respective "concessions", because they enjoyed a material hold over the land (habitation, farming, grazing, fishing m -certain water courses), until i960 and beyond.