Title:	Doing justice without the state :
Other Titles:	The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria model
Authors:	O. Oko, Elechi Molefi Asante
Keywords:	Dispute resolution (Law)--Nigeria--Afikpo
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	This innovative book makes the case for the continued applicability of a traditional system of settling legal cases at Afikpo, one of over 200 groups of Igbo living in southeastern Nigeria. I have personally known the author for some time, as I was external examiner on his Ph.D. dissertation at Simon Fraser University. Afikpo, his original home, which he writes about here, is familiar to me; since I carried out extensive cultural and social anthropological field research there in 1952–1953 and 1959–1960, with brief return trips since then. Professor Elechi’s knowledge of Afikpo language and culture, combined with his training and experience abroad in criminal justice studies, makes him the ideal scholar to present interpretations of an African indigenous legal system and its applicability today. The book is unusual, among studies of the application of the law in African societies and countries, in arguing for the considerable advantage of retaining and supporting traditional legal systems in the modern era, rather than totally replacing them with Western European models, which are often ill-suited to African societies
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10032
ISBN:	0-415-97729-0
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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