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African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems Critical Essays / edited by Oche Onazi.
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice,
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice,
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Onazi, Oche. editor.
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Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Date:
2014.
Publication Place:
Dordrecht :
ISBN:
9789400775374
Subject:
Law.
Culture -- Study and teaching.
Political science.
International education.
Comparative education.
Law -- Philosophy.
Development economics.
Criminology.
Law.
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
Philosophy of Law.
Criminology & Criminal Justice.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Development economics.
International and Comparative Education.
Series:
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 29
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 29
Contents:
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.
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