African Paths to Peace

ISBN-13: 9786209257544 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str.

Dr. Kenneth Olusanmi Francis

Opis

Prior to the Western Incursions in Africa, Africa was though heterogeneous societies, each with their various ways of resolving their conflicts. However, the involvements of Westerners introduced Western methods of resolving conflicts and was used alongside the various indigenous methods. But, the western methods were officially recognised as the formal methods and was therefore enshrined into African independent states (the became the law and the normals). Though the indigenous methods were not totally neglected but the attitudes of the elites towards these methods and the various laws do not recognised them. Upon independence; conflict which has been generally researched to be inevitable where human co-exists continue to be on the increase. In spite of the pockets of conflicts in Africa, Ghana is adjudged to be relatively peaceful while Nigeria suffers incessant conflicts. This is against the backdrops of their similarities in legal system and close characteristics of multi-ethnic and multi-religious practices.