OPINIONISTA: To decolonise our LLB degrees, we have to understand and incorporate the roots of African law

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OPINIONISTA: To decolonise our LLB degrees, we have to understand and incorporate the roots of African law By Gloria Paidamoyo Chikaonda

morality?” Questions that were never quite adequately addressed in my otherwise intellectually challenging Jurisprudence classes and that were briefly canvassed during my encounter with what would turn out to be my favourite course at law school — African customary law.

, some of the most pre-eminent legal scholars on the topic of the existence of African jurisprudence and who were in the Nigerian post-independence period engaged in an enthusiasticon the notion of separability of African law from African morals — a question that goes to the heart of jurisprudential thought.

In this same work he criticises African legal education for its failure in training its legal scholars to belegal scholars, warning us that “the well-being of the African must be the cornerstone of legal education in Africa” .

 

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Wow.....beware the Chinese are coming fast...delusions wil not save the ignorant arrogant and naive...

African law? Surely, you mean custom.

Whatever, dear.

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