African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems Critical Essays /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Onazi, Oche (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 29
• Subjects: Law.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Political science.; International education.; Comparative education.; Law > Philosophy.; Development economics.; Criminology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Development Economics.; International and Comparative Education.

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 mar...

Table of 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.