Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process

Among lawyers concerned with the development process in Africa,two assumptions are commonly made: (1) that urbanization is a one dimensionalphenomenon leading inexorably to urbanism on a westernmodel, and (2) that customary law and customary dispute-settling institutionshave no place in urban Africa...

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Main Author:	SMITH, David Nathan
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Language:	English
Published:	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1972
Subjects:	African Studies Urban Studies
Online Access:	https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2610 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4568/viewcontent/20AmJCompL223__1_.pdf
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description	Among lawyers concerned with the development process in Africa,two assumptions are commonly made: (1) that urbanization is a one dimensionalphenomenon leading inexorably to urbanism on a westernmodel, and (2) that customary law and customary dispute-settling institutionshave no place in urban Africa.
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title	Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process
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publisher	Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate	1972
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Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process

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