The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa / edited by Olaf Zenker and Markus Virgil Hoehne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zenker, Olaf, editor.

Höhne, Markus Virgil, editor.

Series:

Cultural diversity and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Customary law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Customary law.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

xi, 232 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Processing the paradox : when the state has to deal with customary law / Olaf Zenker & Markus Virgil Hoehne

Bush-level bureaucrats in South African land restitution : implementing state law under chiefly rule / Olaf Zenker

State police and tradition in post-war Mozambique : the dilemmas of claiming sovereignty in legal pluralistic contexts / Helene Maria Kyed

Mixing oil and water? : colonial state justice and the challenge of witchcraft accusations in central Equatoria, Southern Sudan / Cherry Leonardi

When the state is forced to deal with local law : approaches of and challenges for state actors in emerging south sudan / Katrin Seidel

Co-opted, abolished, democratized : the Guinean state's strategies towards elders / Anita Schroven

State-orchestrated access to land dispute settlement in Africa : land conflicts and new-wave land reform in Tanzania / Rasmus H. Pedersen

One country, two systems : hybrid political orders (HPOs) and legal and political friction in Somaliland / Markus Virgil Hoehne

The complexity of legal pluralist settings : an afterword / Janine Ubink.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409468639

1409468631

OCLC:

1002693078