POLI 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stateless Society, International Relations, Traditional Authority
11 Feb 2017
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Poli324 colonialism in africa legacies continued lecture notes. To some extent, there was an inclination of the british to embrace traditional and customary law had to do with the legal traditions of. Common law tradition: similarities between this and informal customary law in africa. Conception of african societies the end game and what it should be. France and the european traditions were mainly from civil law. Dethroned and replaced chiefs perceived as not amenable, or stubborn: undermined pre-colonial forms of accountability (decentralized despots) Citizen and subject dilemma in africa: the establishment of a bifurcated state, state that is in duality, location determines access. Indirect rule: one colonial state but another state that is resident in the colony. In the interior: a native, subject to traditional and customary law: under colonial administration: citizen of colonial state, location based. One for colony residents, another for rural natives. One under civil authority, the other under native law.
