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Author | : Nonso Okereafoezeke |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The roles of the native and the foreign English-style justice systems in the administration of law and justice in Nigeria, based on data from Nigeria's Igbo, are examined here. Okereafoezeke uses case studies to look at the nature of colonially imposed justice and the relationship between informal and formal justice. He concludes that the imposed English-style justice system is incapable of dealing with Nigeria's social control problems because it does not anticipate and manage the wide range of issues that the native systems do.
Author | : Nonso Okafo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317070275 |
Download Reconstructing Law and Justice in a Postcolony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on data from a cross-section of postcolonial nations across the world and on a detailed case-study of Nigeria, this book examines the experience of recreating law and justice in postcolonial societies. The author's definition of postcolonial societies includes countries that have emerged from external colonial rule, such as Nigeria and India as well as societies that have overcome internal dominations, such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Suggesting that restructuring a system of law and justice must involve a consideration of the traditions, customs and native laws of a society as well as the official, often foreign rules, this volume examines how ethnically complex nations resolve disputes, whether criminal or civil, through a combination of formal and informal social control systems. This book is unique in its concern with how the average citizens of a postcolonial society can play more active parts in their nation's law and justice, and how modern and increasingly urban societies can learn from indigenous peoples and institutions, which are more informal in their approaches to problem-solving. The concluding chapter looks at the possibility of an increased role for civil as opposed to criminal response in the social control system of a postcolonial society.
Author | : Viviane Saleh-Hanna |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2008-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0776618237 |
Download Colonial Systems of Control Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Nonso Okereafoezeke |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Law and Justice in Post-British Nigeria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The roles of the native and the foreign English-style justice systems in the administration of law and justice in Nigeria, based on data from Nigeria's Igbo, are examined here. Okereafoezeke uses case studies to look at the nature of colonially imposed justice and the relationship between informal and formal justice. He concludes that the imposed English-style justice system is incapable of dealing with Nigeria's social control problems because it does not anticipate and manage the wide range of issues that the native systems do.
Author | : Peter Okoro Nwankwo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780761846468 |
Download Criminal Justice in the Pre-colonial, Colonial and Post-colonial Eras Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book advances Frantz Fanon's two-revolutionary theory of decolonization and analyzes the changes in law during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras. The author argues that Fanon's model of colonial oppression and its categories of maintenance needs are predictive of the evolution from pre-colonial to post-colonial society in Africa.
Author | : Nonso Okafo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317070267 |
Download Reconstructing Law and Justice in a Postcolony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on data from a cross-section of postcolonial nations across the world and on a detailed case-study of Nigeria, this book examines the experience of recreating law and justice in postcolonial societies. The author's definition of postcolonial societies includes countries that have emerged from external colonial rule, such as Nigeria and India as well as societies that have overcome internal dominations, such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Suggesting that restructuring a system of law and justice must involve a consideration of the traditions, customs and native laws of a society as well as the official, often foreign rules, this volume examines how ethnically complex nations resolve disputes, whether criminal or civil, through a combination of formal and informal social control systems. This book is unique in its concern with how the average citizens of a postcolonial society can play more active parts in their nation's law and justice, and how modern and increasingly urban societies can learn from indigenous peoples and institutions, which are more informal in their approaches to problem-solving. The concluding chapter looks at the possibility of an increased role for civil as opposed to criminal response in the social control system of a postcolonial society.
Author | : Max Siollun |
Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781911723264 |
Download What Britain Did to Nigeria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A revelatory account of British imperialism's shameful impact on Africa's most populous state.
Author | : Samuel Fury Childs Daly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108895956 |
Download A History of the Republic of Biafra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point – the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many people survived by engaging in fraud, extortion, and armed violence. When the fighting ended in 1970, these survival tactics endured, even though Biafra itself disappeared from the map. Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, Daly catalogues how people navigated conditions of extreme hardship on the war front, and shows how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime that was to follow.
Author | : Mieke van der Linden |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004321195 |
Download The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used treaties to acquire territory. The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in their expansion of empire.
Author | : Charles Parkinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2007-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199231931 |
Download Bills of Rights and Decolonization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"It presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement, and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutions when negotiated between a state and its dependencies. More generally this book highlights Britain's human rights legacy to its former Empire."--BOOK JACKET.