African legal theory and contemporary problems : critical essays [electronic resource] / Oche Onazi, editor.
Onazi, Oche, editor of compilation.
2014
KQC90 .A35 2014eb
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Title
African legal theory and contemporary problems : critical essays [electronic resource] / Oche Onazi, editor.
ISBN
9789400775374 electronic book
9400775377 electronic book
9789400775367
9400775369
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, [2014]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 293 pages).
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KQC90 .A35 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
340.096
Summary
The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Onazi, Oche, editor of compilation.
Series
Ius gentium (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 29.
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Introduction / Oche Onazi
On "African" legal theory : a possibility, an impossibility or mere conundrum? / Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe
When British justice (in African colonies) points two ways : on dualism, hybridity, and the genealogy of juridical negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias / Mark Toufayan
Decoding Afrocentrism : decolonizing legal theory / Dan Kuwali
Connecting African jurisprudence to universal jurisprudence through a shared understanding of contract / Dominic Burbidge
The legal subject in modern African law : a Nigerian report / Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
African values, human rights and group rights : a philosophical foundation for the Banjul Charter / Thaddeus Metz
Before rights and responsibilities : an African ethos of citizenship / Oche Onazi
The practice and promise of making rights claims : lessons from the South African treatment access campaign / Karen Zivi
Unpacking the universal : African human rights philosophy in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Basil Ugochukwu
Legal empowerment of the poor : does political participation matter? / Oche Onazi
The humanist basis of African communitarianism as viable third alternative theory of developmentalism / Adebisi Arewa
Crime detection and the Psychic witness in America : an allegory for re-appraising indigenous African criminology / Babafemi Odunsi.

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