Colonial Legacies and the Rule of Law in Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe by Salmon A Shomade

Author:Salmon A Shomade [Shomade, Salmon A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367370336
Google: JGyOzgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 58636184
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Herein, Yusuf focuses on the Nigerian legal system and transitional justice. He is complaining about the delayed tactics utilized by highly connected elites and their lawyers in avoiding timely or appropriate punishment for their misdeeds. But his frustration is directed at the legal system enabled by the Nigerian constitution, which is replete with colonial antecedents. In a related prior publication, he forcefully argues:

The instrumental use of the legal system and the holes therein, is a consequence and product of the colonial regime’s imposition of English Common Law on Nigeria and the post-colonial regimes’ failures to appropriate revise and update the legal frameworks. The Nigerian society continues to pay a heavy price for the failure of transitional justice. More than a decade and half after the military left power, a myriad of conflicts that have since ensued to challenge institutional reform, good governance and development in the country. The situation provides ample evidence of the danger inherent in neglecting to address the impunity that was the defining feature and legacy of the colonial and authoritarian period.22

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