How Did West African Conceptions of Land Ownership Differ from European

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Multiple Choice

How did West African conceptions of land ownership differ from European ones?

• A)West Africans did not believe that individual farmers could own or sell the products of the land they farmed.
• B)West Africans believed that land was the collective possession of a state or kinship group.
• C)West Africans believed that land must be continuously redistributed to ensure that each adult man had his own plot.
• D)West Africans believed that individual ownership of land was an inviolable right.

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