Colonial Legacies and the Rule of Law in Africa
Colonial Legacies and the Rule of Law in Africa

Author: Salmon A Shomade

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1000521087

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This book focuses on the continued impact of British colonial legacy on the rule of law in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The legal system is intended to protect regular citizens, but within the majority of Africa the rule of law remains infused with Eurocentric cultural and linguistic tropes, which can leave its supposed beneficiaries feeling alienated from the structures intended to protect them. This book traces the impact, effect, opportunities, and challenges that the colonial legacy poses for the rule of law across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The book examines the similarities and differences of the colonial legacy on the current legal landscape of each nation and the intersection with the rule of law. This important comparative study will be of interest to scholars of Political Science, International Studies, Law, African Politics, and British Colonial History.

The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)

Author: Mieke van der Linden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-10-05

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9004321195

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Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under international law of former colonial States is addressed. Such a legal responsibility would presuppose the violation of the international law that was applicable at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in the context of the acquisition of territory and the expansion of empire, mainly through extending sovereignty rights and, subsequently, intervening in the internal affairs of African political entities.

Disrupting Africa
Disrupting Africa

Author: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 1009064223

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In the digital era, many African countries sit at the crossroads of a potential future that will be shaped by digital-era technologies with existing laws and institutions constructed under conditions of colonial and post-colonial authoritarian rule. In Disrupting Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa examines this intersection and shows how it encompasses existing and new zones of contestation based on ethnicity, religion, region, age, and other sources of division. Arewa highlights specific collisions between the old and the new, including in the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, which involved young people engaging with varied digital era technologies who provoked a violent response from rulers threatened by the prospect of political change. In this groundbreaking work, Arewa demonstrates how lawmaking and legal processes during and after colonialism continue to frame contexts in which digital technologies are created, implemented, regulated, and used in Africa today.

Colonial Systems of Control
Colonial Systems of Control

Author: Viviane Saleh-Hanna

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2008-04-18

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0776618237

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A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

Author: Aribidesi Usman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1107064600

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A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.

The Statesman's Year-Book 1965-66
The Statesman's Year-Book 1965-66

Author: S. Steinberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-26

Total Pages: 1743

ISBN-13: 0230270948

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Nigerian Legal System
The Nigerian Legal System

Author: Charles Mwalimu

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1118

ISBN-13: 9780820478555

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Volume 1 on public law provides an introduction to the Nigerian legal system. The various chapters deal with: introduction and sources of law; jurisprudence and Nigerian perspectives; African customary law; Islamic law; comparative constitutionalism and Nigerian perspectives; citizenship, immigration and administrative law; judicial system and legal profession; criminal law, evidence and civil procedure; statutory marriage and divorce laws; customary marriage and divorce; marriage and divorce under Islamic law; matters of children; gender and law in Nigeria with emphasis on Islamic law. Volume 2 has 25 chapters on private law that includes security of the environment and environmental law, land and property administration, commercial business and trade laws, communication, media and press laws, transportation and carrier laws, law enforcement, armed forces and military laws, investments, and intellectual property.