African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems : Critical Essays / edited by Oche Onazi.
2014
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Title
African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems : Critical Essays / edited by Oche Onazi.
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Edition
1st ed. 2014.
Imprint
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Description
X, 293 p. online resource.
Series
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 2214-9902 ; 29.
Formatted Contents Note
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction; Oche Onazi
Part I: Law
Chapter 1 On 'African' Legal Theory: A Possibility, An Impossibility or Mere Conundrum?; Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe
Chapter 2 When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points Two Ways: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias; Mark Toufayan
Chapter 3 Decoding Afrocentrism: Decolonizing Legal Theory; Dan Kuwali
Chapter 4 Connecting African Jurisprudence to Universal Jurisprudence through a shared understanding of Contract; Dominic Burbidge
Chapter The Legal Subject in Modern African Law: A Nigerian Report; Olúfémi Táíwó
Part II: Rights
Chapter 6 African Values, Human Rights and Group Rights: A Philosophical Foundation for the Banjul Charter; Thaddeus Metz
Chapter 7 Before Rights and Responsibilities: An African Ethos of Citizenship; Oche Onazi
Chapter 8 The Practice and the Promise of Making Rights Claims: Lessons from the South African Treatment Access Campaign; Karen Zivi.- Chapter 9 Unpacking the Universal: African Human Rights Philosophy in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Basil Ugochukwu
Part III: Society
Chapter 10 Legal Empowerment of the Poor: Does Political Participation matter? Oche Onazi
Chapter 11 The Humanist basis of African Communitarianism as viable third alternative theory of developmentalism; Adebisi Arewa
12 Crime Detection and the Psychic Witness in America: an Allegory for re-appraising Indigenous African Criminology; Babafemi Odunsi
Index.
List of Contributors
Introduction; Oche Onazi
Part I: Law
Chapter 1 On 'African' Legal Theory: A Possibility, An Impossibility or Mere Conundrum?; Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe
Chapter 2 When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points Two Ways: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias; Mark Toufayan
Chapter 3 Decoding Afrocentrism: Decolonizing Legal Theory; Dan Kuwali
Chapter 4 Connecting African Jurisprudence to Universal Jurisprudence through a shared understanding of Contract; Dominic Burbidge
Chapter The Legal Subject in Modern African Law: A Nigerian Report; Olúfémi Táíwó
Part II: Rights
Chapter 6 African Values, Human Rights and Group Rights: A Philosophical Foundation for the Banjul Charter; Thaddeus Metz
Chapter 7 Before Rights and Responsibilities: An African Ethos of Citizenship; Oche Onazi
Chapter 8 The Practice and the Promise of Making Rights Claims: Lessons from the South African Treatment Access Campaign; Karen Zivi.- Chapter 9 Unpacking the Universal: African Human Rights Philosophy in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Basil Ugochukwu
Part III: Society
Chapter 10 Legal Empowerment of the Poor: Does Political Participation matter? Oche Onazi
Chapter 11 The Humanist basis of African Communitarianism as viable third alternative theory of developmentalism; Adebisi Arewa
12 Crime Detection and the Psychic Witness in America: an Allegory for re-appraising Indigenous African Criminology; Babafemi Odunsi
Index.
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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