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Widows and Daughters Inheritance Rights under Laws of Tanzania: A Need for Law Reform

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dc.creator Mwasamwaja, Gwamaka J.
dc.date 2020-10-30T08:02:47Z
dc.date 2020-10-30T08:02:47Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-05T07:28:59Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-05T07:28:59Z
dc.identifier APA
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4424
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4424
dc.description A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to the Faculty of Law in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree of Mzumbe University
dc.description This study examines widows and daughters inheritance rights in Tanzania, This study was guided by the following research questions:” What are the laws that give rights to the widows and daughters in inheritance and succession in Tanzania? What are the laws that are discriminative to widows and daughters on issues of inheritance in Tanzania? How do these laws discriminate widows and daughters in inheritance and succession in Tanzania? and What is to be done in order to rescue the rights of widows and daughters in inheritance and succession in Tanzania?” The study involved a sample of 20 respondents and random sampling technique was employed. Primary and secondary data were collected using interviews, questionnaire and from documents read during the literature review. The findings show that Islamic and Customary law discriminate widows and daughters’ inheritance rights in our society, through the distribution of little or no shares at all to widow, women and daughters of the deceased. The study, therefore, recommends this problem to be solved by amending the discriminating laws. This should be done by various parties such as human right activists, legislature, judiciary, NGOs and ordinary citizens.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Mzumbe University
dc.subject Widows, Daughters Inheritance Rights, Widows Inheritance, inheritance
dc.title Widows and Daughters Inheritance Rights under Laws of Tanzania: A Need for Law Reform
dc.type Thesis


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