Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process

Author

David Nathan SMITH, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-1972

Abstract

Among lawyers concerned with the development process in Africa,two assumptions are commonly made: (1) that urbanization is a one dimensionalphenomenon leading inexorably to urbanism on a westernmodel, and (2) that customary law and customary dispute-settling institutionshave no place in urban Africa.

Discipline

African Studies | Urban Studies

Research Areas

Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice

Publication

American Journal of Comparative Law

Volume

20

Issue

2

First Page

223

Last Page

246

ISSN

0002-919X

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP): AJCL

Citation

SMITH, David Nathan. Man and Law in Urban Africa: A Role for Customary Courts in the Urbanization Process. (1972). American Journal of Comparative Law. 20, (2), 223-246.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2610

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Comments

reprinted in Readings on African Law (W.B. Harvey, ed., 1975)