Law and Justice in Post-British Nigeria: Conflicts and Interactions Between Native and Foreign Systems of Social Control in Igbo. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, Hard Copy, 2002, 236 pages. By Nonso Okereafoezeke

Abstract

Undeniably, African criminologists are redirecting much needed research toward the production of quality scholarship that addresses the missing link in the development of African criminology and criminal justice. The latest such cogent work is manifest in Law and Justice in Post-British Nigeria, written by Professor Nonso Okereafoezeke of Norfolk State University in Virginia. Noting that Nigeria is a complex society with its multifaceted ethnic dimensions rooted in Eurocentric and egocentric scrambling of wealth and power, Okerafoezeke investigates the confusion, prior to colonial dominion, that was engendered by the introduction of alien laws on an already existing native jurisprudence in divergent regions of Nigeria. He also employs Igbo legal traditions to illuminate the incongruities of the manifold legal systems that operate in Nigeria.