Oxford LibGuides: Africa: sub-Saharan jurisdictions: Customary law

Customary or Indigenous law in Africa

African Customary Law (African Law Reporter)
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Customary law -- Africa

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African Customary Law: an Introduction by Peter Onyango
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9789966031921
Publication Date: 2013
The nature of African customary law by by T. Olawale Elias .
Call Number: General 510 E42a
Publication Date: 1956
Ideas and procedures in African customary law : studies presented and discussed at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, January 1966 by International African Seminar (8th : 1966 : Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa) | Gluckman, Max, 1911-1975
Call Number: General 510 G567a
Publication Date: 1969
Casebook on Kenya customary law by Eugene Cotran
Call Number: Cw Kenya 510 C845a
ISBN: 0862052556
Publication Date: 1987
The Future of African Customary Law by Jeanmarie Fenrich (Editor); Paolo Galizzi (Editor); Tracy E. Higgins (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9780521118538
Publication Date: 2011
print copy is at General 510 F340a
African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice by Tom Bennett (Editor); Eva Brems (Editor); Giselle Corradi (Editor); Lia Nijzink (Editor); Martien Schotsmans (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 570 B472.7a
ISBN: 1780680597
Publication Date: 2012
Competing Jurisdictions Settling land claims in Africa by Sandra Evers, Marja Spierenburg, and Harry Wels
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9789047416449
Publication Date: 2005

Restatement Project & its Impact

The Restatement of African Law Project (RALP), 1959 - c1970 headed by Antony (Tony) Allott (SOAS) " ... to facilitate, undertake and assist in the recording of customary laws in Commonwealth African countries in a systematic legal fashion (the choice of the term “restatement” having been influenced by the restatements of American common law)." Cotran E, “Tony Allott, Pioneer of the Study of African Law: A Personal Memoir” (1987) 31 Journal of African Law 15

RALP volumes held in the Law Bod

Cotran, The law of marriage and divorce. Cw Kenya 510 R436 (1)
Cotran, The law of succession Cw Kenya 510 R436 (2)
Ibik,The law of land, succession, movable property, agreements and civil wrongs Cw Malawi 510 R436 (2)
Ibik,The law of marriage and divorce Cw Malawi 510 R436 (1)
Kludze, Ewe law of property Cw Ghana 510 R436 (1)
Roberts, Tswana family law Cw Botswana 510 R436 (5)

Cass Library of African Law Series
Cory & Hartnoll, Customary law of the Haya tribe, Tanganyika Territory Cw Tang 510 C833
Cotran, Readings in African law General 510 C845a (2 vols)
Mair, African marriage and social change General 510 M228a

Butterworths African Law Series
Allott, Judicial and legal systems in Africa (2nd edn, 1970) Cw Gen 510 A441b2
Allott New Essays in African Law (1970) Cw Gen 510 A441c
Bennion The constitutional law of Ghana.Cw Ghana 510 B472
Ekow Daniels, The Common Law of West Africa; Cw Gen 510 D186
Farran,Matrimonial laws of the Sudan : being a study of the divergent religious and civil laws in an African society.Sudan 510 F241
Haydon, Law and justice in Buganda Cw Uganda 510 H416
Kasunmu & Salacuse, Nigerian Family Law.Cw Nigeria 510 K19
Nwabueze, Machinery of Justice in Nigeria Cw Nigeria 510 N992a
Nwabueze,Constitutional Law of the Nigerian Republic Cw Nigeria 510 N992b
Obi, Ibo Law of Property Cw Nigeria 510 O12a
Rudd, The Nigerian law of evidence Cw Nigeria 510 R914

Twining The place of customary law in the national legal systems of East Africa : lectures delivered at the University of Chicago Law School in April-May, 1963 Cw E Afr 510 T973a