African Customary Law: Developing an African Jurisprudence

The dichotomy between the State laws and the reflection of true African social life of the people is quite eminent. Certain legal values that have been enshrined by the ancestors and have been persistently passed on from one generation to the next by elders, through oral traditions, have been binding on the members of respective communities from time immemorial. Reviving the long debate on the need for the study of the African customary law therefore is timely and worthwhile.