LAW REFERENCES IN AFRICA - General law

General Resources

Books

• Julius Lewin, Studies in African Native Law (1947), LC Call No. KTL449.3 .L495 1947, http://lccn.loc.gov/47031069.
• A.L. Epstein, Juridical Techniques and the Judicial Process: A Study in African Customary Law (1954), LC Call No. KTY350 .E67 1954, http://lccn.loc.gov/55002460.
• Taslim Olawale Elias, The Nature of African Customary Law (1956), LC Call No. LAW <Africa General 7 Elia>, http://lccn.loc.gov/57001037.
• Alexander Nékám, Experiences in African Customary Law (1966), LC Call No. KQC99 .N45 1966, http://lccn.loc.gov/72191489.
• READINGS IN AFRICAN LAW (Eugene Cotran & N. Rubin eds., 1970), LC Call No. LAW, http://lccn.loc.gov/76547586.
• Thierry Verhelst, Safeguarding African Customary Law: Judicial and Legislative Processes for its Adaptation and Integration (1968), LC Call No. DT1 .C34 no. 7, http://lccn.loc.gov/73157018.
• Anthony Allott, Essays in African Law, With Special Reference to the Law of Ghana (1975), LC Call No. KQC99 .A45 1975, http://lccn.loc.gov/74030925.
• Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, African Indigenous Laws: Proceedings of Workshop, 7–9 August, 1974 (Taslim Olawale Elias et al. eds., 1975), LC Call No. LAW, http://lccn.loc.gov/81160406.
• T.W. Bennett, A Source Book of African Customary Law for Southern Africa (1st ed. 1991), LC Call No. KTL449.3 .B46 1991, http://lccn.loc.gov/92127155.
• Akintunde Ẹmiọla, The Principles of African Customary Law (1997), LC Call No. KQC99 .E46 1997, http://lccn.loc.gov/99208651.
• R.B. Mqeke, Basic Approaches to Problem Solving in Customary Law: A Study of Conciliation and Consensus Among the Cape Nguni (1997), LC Call No. KTL1829 .M69 1997, http://lccn.loc.gov/99213883.
• Toriola Oyewo & O.B. Olaoba, A Survey of African Law and Custom: With Particular Reference to the Yoruba Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria (1999), LC Call No. KTA449.3 .O97 1999, http://lccn.loc.gov/00311446.
• Toriola Oyewo, Issues in African Judical [sic] Process with Particular Reference to the Customary Courts of South-Western Nigeria (1st ed. 1999), LC Call No. KTA449.3 .O968 1999, http://lccn.loc.gov/2001345016.
• O.B. Olaoba, An Introduction to African Legal Culture (2002), LC Call No. KQC79 .O43 2002, http://lccn.loc.gov/2003538949.
• A. Toriola Oyewo, African Customary Law in Comparative Milieu and Related Topics (2003), LC Call NO. KQC99 .O94 2003, http://lccn.loc.gov/2005447686.
• George B.N. Ayittey, Indigenous African Institutions (2006), LC Call No. GN645 .A88 2006, http://lccn.loc.gov/2006041784.
• O. Oko Elechi, Doing Justice Without the State: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model (2006), LC Call No. KTA3755 .E44 2006, http://lccn.loc.gov/2006010759.
• Traditional Justice and Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: Learning from African Experiences (Luc Huyse et al. eds., 2008), LC Call No. KQC977 .T73 2008, http://lccn.loc.gov/2008380884.
• Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (Emily Burrill et al. eds., 2010), LC Call No. HV6626.23.A35 D66 2010, http://lccn.loc.gov/2010017441.
• The Future of African Customary Law (Jeanmarie Fenrich et al. eds., 2011), LC Call No. KQC99 .F88 2011, http://lccn.loc.gov/2011001813.
• African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice (Tom Bennet et al. eds., 2012), LC Call No. KQC99 .A37 2012, http://lccn.loc.gov/2012471257.

Articles

• Lloyd Fallers, Customary Law in the New African States, 27(4) Law & Contemp. Probs. 605 (Autumn 1962) (available in JSTOR).
• A.N. Allott, What Is to Be Done with African Customary Law? The Experience of Problems and Reforms in Anglophone Africa from 1950, 28(1–2) J. Afr. L. 56 (1984) (available in HeinOnline and JSTOR).
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos, From Customary Law to Popular Justice, 28(1–2) J. Afr. L. 90 (1984) (available in HeinOnline).
• Narana Coissoro, African Customary Law in the Former Portuguese Territories, 1954–1974, 28(1–2) J. Afr. L. 72 (1984) (available in HeinOnline).
• Ann Seidman & Robert B. Seidman, The Political Economy of Customary Law in the Former British Territories of Africa, 28(1–2) J. Afr. L. 44 (1984) (available in HeinOnline).
• A.J.G.M. Sanders, How Customary is African Customary Law?, 20 Comp. Int'l L.J. S. Afr. 205 (1987) (available in HeinOnline).
• I.E. Sagay, Customary Law and Freedom of Testamentary Power, 39(2) J. Afr. L. 173 (1995) (available in JSTOR).
• Minneh Kane et al., Reassessing Customary Law Systems as a Vehicle for Providing Access to Justice for the Poor (Arusha Conference, "New Frontiers of Social Policy: Development in a Globalizing World," Dec. 12–15, 2005), available at http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETSOCIALDEVELOPMENT/Resources/Kane.rev.pdf.
• T.W. Bennett, Re-introducing African Customary Law to the South African Legal System, 57(1) Am. J. Comp. L. 1 (Winter 2009) (available in HeinOnline).
• David Pimentel, Rule of Law Reform Without Cultural Imperialism? Reinforcing Customary Justice Through Collateral Review in Southern Sudan, 2 Hague J. on Rule L. 1 (2010), http://www.innovatingjustice.com/media/Pimentel.pdf.
• Abdulmumini A. Oba, Religious and Customary Law in Nigeria, 25(2) Emory Int'l L. Rev. 881 (2011), http://www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/journals/eilr/25/25.2/Oba.pdf.