Editorial: Indigenous Perspectives and Counter Colonial Criminology

Abstract

A clue to the inspiration for this special edition of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies can be found in its title, 'Indigenous Perspectives and Counter Colonial Criminologies'. In the late 2000s one of the guest editors' for this edition was advised to read 'Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason' by Nigerian scholar Biko Agozino: a book that a friend and colleague described as "ground-breaking". Biko's papyrus, published in 2003, is considered by many Indigenous and critical justice commentators as a landmark critique of Western criminology (Oriola, 2006; Tauri, 2012a).