Law and Justice in Post-British Nigeria: Conflicts and Interactions Between Native And Foreign Systems of Social Control in Igbo, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. 236 pp.: by Nonso Okereafoezeke

Abstract

This book fills a critical void in the literature on the interface between African indigenous justice systems and the colonial installed African state justice system. The author examines the phenomenon of a plural justice system in contemporary Ajalli, an Igbo town of South East Nigeria with a population of about 5000. The main thrust of the book is the examination of the promises and contradictions of the two justice systems with divergent legal traditions and goals operating in Ajalli, namely the Igbo native system of justice and the Nigerian state criminal justice system.