Administrative Convenience or Deliberate Reform? The Impacts of the Colonial Judicial Legacy of the Pre-Colonial Justice System in South-Western Nigeria

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dc.contributor.advisorAkande, Rabiat
dc.contributor.authorAdeyeye, Adewale Adekunle
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-08T14:39:27Z
dc.date.available2023-12-08T14:39:27Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-08
dc.date.updated2023-12-08T14:39:26Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractIn pre-colonial times, the ethnic groups that independently existed in the territory now called Nigeria had organized systems of government. However, the sweeping force of nineteenth-century colonialism erased most of these pre-colonial governments’ institutions and replaced them with the British system. Notably, in South-Western Nigeria (Yorubaland), historical evidence revealed the existence of a constitutional monarchy with organized branches of government. Especially, the pre-colonial judicial branch/justice system of the Yoruba monarchy was radically altered by colonialism. Using the interdisciplinary methodology, this research answered questions related to the structures and procedures of the pre-colonial justice system in South-Western Nigeria and how it is indelibly impacted by colonialism. In its systematic, and expository narration, this research found an inseparable nexus between lawfare and force as instruments of colonial distortion of the pre-colonial justice system of South-Western Nigeria. Thus, this work augments an aspect of the almost neglected field of African/Nigerian legal history.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41717
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectAfrican history
dc.subjectInternational law
dc.subject.keywordsYorubaland
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsSouth-Western Nigeria
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican legal history
dc.subject.keywordsNigerian legal history
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican customary law
dc.subject.keywordsPre-colonial Yoruba judicial history
dc.subject.keywordsPre-colonial Yoruba court system
dc.subject.keywordsColonial Yoruba court system
dc.subject.keywordsCivil and criminal procedure rules
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican international law
dc.subject.keywordsInternational law
dc.titleAdministrative Convenience or Deliberate Reform? The Impacts of the Colonial Judicial Legacy of the Pre-Colonial Justice System in South-Western Nigeria
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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