Land tenure systems in sub-Saharan African countries have changed in different ways over time with emergent neo-customary land tenure systems engendering exclusionary tendencies. Drawing on Pramso as a centralised case study in Greater Kumasi’s peri-urban area using in-depth interviews, this paper investigated peri-urban expansion and attendant changes in usufruct rights to understand indigenes’ exclusion from neo-customary land tenure. The paper finds peri-urban urban expansion in Kumasi to be more rapid after 2005 than between 1984 and 2005. In Pramso, the rapid and continuous peri-urban growth coupled with land allocation, together termed as peri-urban land commodification, precipitates neo-customary land tenure in which the focus on physical parcels of converted usufructuary land collapses traditional usufruct rights. In place of the collapsed rights, major remnants includes a quarter share of converted usufructuary land for indigene-families, a quarter share for community development, unconverted usufruct rights in respect of distant land, parcels with existing dwellings, and emergent peri-urban livelihood opportunities. Unlike indigenes, traditional authorities become major beneficiaries of this change. As the traditional usufruct rights are the main entitlement of indigenes, its collapse and traditional authorities’ suddenly becoming major beneficiaries indicates indigenes’ exclusion. The paper contends that the observed pervasive flexibility of customary land tenure systems in sub-Saharan Africa allows this change but also breeds unexpected and undesirable results for certain stakeholders such as indigenes. In the context of the rapid peri-expansion of African cities and the threat of irreversible and continuous change from customary to neo-customary land, the paper calls for right-based management of neo-customary land to equitably benefit all right holders.

随着时间的推移，撒哈拉以南非洲国家的土地使用权制度发生了不同的变化，新兴的新习惯土地使用权制度产生了排斥趋势。本文将普拉姆索作为大库马西城郊地区的集中案例研究，通过深入访谈，调查了城郊扩张和随之而来的用益权变化，以了解土著人被排除在新习惯土地使用权之外。该论文发现，库马西的城郊城市扩张在 2005 年之后比 1984 年至 2005 年间更快。在普拉姆索，城郊快速和持续的增长加上土地分配，统称为城郊土地商品化，促成了新的城市化。习惯上的土地使用权，其中对转换后的用益物权土地的物理地块的关注破坏了传统的用益物权。代替坍塌的权利，主要的剩余部分包括四分之一的原住民家庭使用权土地、四分之一的社区发展、未转换的偏远土地使用权、现有住宅地块和新兴的城郊谋生机会. 与原住民不同，传统当局成为这一变化的主要受益者。由于传统用益权是原住民的主要权利，其瓦解和传统权威突然成为主要受益者，表明原住民被排斥在外。该论文认为，观察到的撒哈拉以南非洲传统土地使用权制度普遍具有的灵活性允许这种变化，但也为某些利益相关者（如土著居民）带来了意想不到的和不受欢迎的结果。