Book Title: Understanding Africa: Traditional Legal Reasoning, Jurisprudence & Justice in Igboland as a Basis for Culturally Rooted and Sustainable Development
Year of Publication: 2001
Co-author: Ndidi Nnoli Edozien
ISBN: 978-34677-3-5
Publisher: CIDJAP Press
Language: English
No. of Pages: 185
Abstract:
Understanding Africa explores Africa’s past and present through Igbo society, showing how culture shapes identity, law, and community life. It challenges clichés and highlights values that support dignity, education, peace, and respect across the continent.
The book asks questions about justice, custom, religion, and social order, and explains traditional legal reasoning. Grounding development in local wisdom, it offers tools for governance, reconciliation, and sustainable progress in a plural world.
