Review of: "Customary Land Tenure, Mining, and the Development Question: Insights From a Transitional State"

The article entitled Evaluation of the article Customary land tenure, mining and the issue of development: perceptions of a transitional state constitutes a very pertinent topic Customary land tenure generally concerns systems established by communities and passed from one generation to another.This appropriation of knowledge over time ends up determining the ways in which the community, especially the rural community, relates to and manages the land.From this perspective, the different forms of customary ownership interact with each other and in many instances overlap with each other as well as in many instances with the formal law of public administration, making it urgent to have adequate legislative procedures in which, without removing state power, they are created opportunities for communities to assert their customary rights in respect for custom, based on the practices of our ancestors regarding land ownership, considering that within the framework of positive law, custom is considered a source of law.