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• Introduction
• Thinking about African African legal ethics
• The African in African legal ethics
• African African jurisprudence in African African legal ethics
• African African legal ethics as an expression of African African culture
• African African legal ethics : a crisis of orientation
• Conclusion

This book is a philosophical inquiry into indigenous African legal ethics, asking what is African about African legal ethics? Taking us beyond a geographical understanding of Africa, the author argues for an African legal ethics that is distinct from non-African African legal ethics which are rooted in Euro-Western constructions. De-silencing African voices on African legal ethics this book decolonizes the prevailing wisdom on legal ethics and broadens our understanding of how law in Africa bears on ethics in Africa or, conversely, on how ethics bears on law in Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars of African philosophy, philosophy of law, and legal ethics.
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• Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Study of Customary Law
• Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Customary Law
• Chapter 3: NAS Law and Property Transaction Costs
• Chapter 4: NAS Law and Women's Rights Attainment
• Chapter 5: Implications and Conclusions.
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Africa is the emerging continent of the twenty-first century and will continue to play a major role in the world politics and trade. At the center of the African experience is customary law, which remains one of the most important and quintessential forms of legal, political, and social organization and regulation in the sub-Saharan landscape. Using qualitative and quantitative data, Casper Njuguna, sets a framework for understanding the hybrid nature of this law and creates an appropriate new moniker for it-Neo-Autogenous Sub-Saharan Law (NAS law). This systematic and empirical analysis addresses philosophical issues like human rights, property rights, women's rights, individual rights and freedoms, family relations, social structures, and political loyalties, which span beyond Africa and African scholars.
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• Les mécanismes juridiques de régulation de la vie en société. En matière civile
• En matière pénale
• En matière foncière
• En matière des droits de l'homme
• En matière de coopération internationale et d'intégration africaine. Les mécanismes sociaux de régulation de la vie en société. L'organisation socioculturelle de la société mandingue
• L'organisation politico-administrative de la société mandingue
• L'évolution sociale de l'individu
• La notion du temps.

Peer reviewed journal that publishes scholarly contributions on topical aspects of African law and the law in Africa.

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• 1. Du serment des chasseurs à l'abolition de l'esclavage (1212-1222)

• The social contract, democracy, law and order in Africa
• The concept of law in an indigenous African (Yoruba) society
• The rule of law, leadership and development
• Aspects of legal education and sociopolitical order in indigenous Yoruba society
• Parallel epistemologies, parallel justice systems
• Human rights and law in indigenous and contemporary Africa
• Traditional religion, constituted authority, law and order
• Social ethics, law and development
• Law, order, Èşù and liminality in the Yoruba legal system
• Culture, property rights and risk management in African development.

In The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society, John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji has two main goals. The first is to provide an exploration of aspects of indigenous Yoruba philosophy of law. The second is to relate this philosophy of law to the Yoruba indigenous traditions of governance, with a view to appreciating the relevance of the Yoruba traditions of law and governance to contemporary African experiments with imported Western democracy in the 21st century. This book is devoted to what can be described as a juridical forensic investigation of Nigeria's predicament of developmental deficit, leading to gross and unconscionable impoverishment of large segments of the population, in the midst of so much natural resources and abundant human capital, using Yoruba indigenous legal traditions as reflective template. Bewaji urges that Africa has to take seriously the necessity of obedience, observance, enforcement and operation of law as no respecter of persons, groups, affiliations and pedigrees as was in the case in the societies founded by our ancestors, rather than the present scenario whereby the highest bidder procures semblances of justice from a crooked system of common law which was never designed to be fair, equitable and just to the disadvantaged in society.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Social Contract - the Foundation of Yoruba Society
• Chapter 2 The Concept of Law in Yoruba Society
• Chapter 3 The Rule of Law in Yoruba Society
• Chapter 4 Aspects of Legal Education in Yoruba Society
• Chapter 5 Parallel Epistemologies, Parallel Justice Systems in Yorubaland
• Chapter 6 Human Rights in Yoruba Society
• Chapter 7 Religion, Authority, Law and Order in Yoruba Society
• Chapter 8 Social Ethics and Value in Africa
• Chapter 9 Law, Order, Esu and Liminality in Yoruba Society
• Chapter 10 Culture, Property Rights and Risk Management in Africa Conclusion.
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In The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society, John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji has two main goals. The first is to provide an exploration of aspects of indigenous Yoruba philosophy of law. The second is to relate this philosophy of law to the Yoruba indigenous traditions of governance, with a view to appreciating the relevance of the Yoruba traditions of law and governance to contemporary African experiments with imported Western democracy in the 21st century. This book is devoted to what can be described as a juridical forensic investigation of Nigeria's predicament of developmental deficit, leading to gross and unconscionable impoverishment of large segments of the population, in the midst of so much natural resources and abundant human capital, using Yoruba indigenous legal traditions as reflective template. Bewaji urges that Africa has to take seriously the necessity of obedience, observance, enforcement and operation of law as no respecter of persons, groups, affiliations and pedigrees as was in the case in the societies founded by our ancestors, rather than the present scenario whereby the highest bidder procures semblances of justice from a crooked system of common law which was never designed to be fair, equitable and just to the disadvantaged in society.
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• Pt. 1. Understanding the Igbo world and law subjects: Okafor's thesis in the book : Igbo philosophy of law
• Okafor's contribution to Igbo African jurisprudence
• Inspirations from Igbo cosmology and folklores
• Towards an Igbo philosophy of law and right
• Two basic rights
• pt. 2. Covenant-based theory of Igbo philosophy of law: Individuals in the order of being
• Igbo African environment : individualist and collectivist perspectives
• Understanding covenant as an inter-subjective reality
• Covenant and rights
• Theoretical grounds for authority and leadership
• The democratic bent of covenanted leadership
• Pt. 3. Is-Ought problem in Igbo jurisprudence: Introducing the Is-Ought problem in Igbo jurisprudence
• National law does not derive Ought from Is
• It is valid to derive a legal Ought from a legal Is
• The Romans had a theory of law : The natural law theory
• Igbo jurisprudence : an exercise in legal coherentism.