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The primary objective of this paper is to discuss and account for the divergent paths followed by the evolution of land and property rights in two peri-urban settlements abutting the city of Gaborone, Botswana. It appears land tenure changes in both settlements have neither been driven by population growth nor conformed to trajectories predicted by the Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights. Both villages...