Files
Abstract
In the South-West Central African Republic forest, the land represents an inalienable wealth for Aka indigenous peoples. It is earth, that the Aka commonly called pygmies, derive most of their livelihoods. This is why land resources have been the focus of attention of these first inhabitants of the region, who have governed them by legal and traditional standards. These rules, although based on orality, require a legal value, the observance of which is imposed on the entire community. The accession to independence, introduced other modes of access to land, characterized by the development of so-called state-owned and state-owned spaces. The study shows thatmulti-legalism has upset the land management systems of Aka indigenous peoples, posing a problem of land governance, punctuated by a perpetual dialectic between the customary and the modern.