**Links to**: [[Alienation]], [[Ownership]], [[Border]], [[Linearity]], [[Marx]], [[Capitalism]], [[Self]], [[Authority]].
“The KiKongo (KiManianga dialect) proverb states,
‘Mu kânda ka mwena nzaku (za n’koto) ko,’
which asserts **that land is public because no person comes into the world owning property.**” Our emphasis in bold, footnote by Daniels:
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau (2001, 64–65, 105) translates this proverb as:
>There are no boundaries of land within the community land. [Meaning] The freedom of land use by all community members is warranted within the community. There is no privacy on land issues; its ownership is public for no one came in this world with a piece of land in his/her hand. Therefore, it cannot be sold, bought or alienated.”
Kyrah Malika Daniels (2021) “Vodou harmonizes the head-pot, or, Haiti’s multisoul complex.”, pp. 3-4.
### Aesthetic interest and private property
The liberal, voluntarist, individualist idea that you can have an accomplished [[Aesthetic interest]] is based on the idea of private property.
The determinist, distributed, communal idea that you can have an accomplished [[Aesthetic interest]] is based on the idea of collective efforts benefit the whole.