Post-Colonial Law and State Trends and Challenges in Africa
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-6794-2022-2-15-24
Abstract
Aim. Identify a number of relevant aspects and trends in the historical and modern development of law and statehood in Africa.
Methodology. During the study, the historical-legal, comparative-legal method, formal-logical and dialectical methods were applied.
Results. The study highlighted the features of the genesis and development of law on the African continent in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. The conclusions obtained during the study made it possible to determine the reasons for the contradictions between the social regulators of indigenous African peoples and European law, the emergence of crises in the field of state management related to colonization and not resulted from the natural evolution of African societies. Proposals have been put forward to implement the Africanization of African law and the State through a change in legal ideology through the granting of broad participation rights in the management of the affairs of the State to African families and their associations, legal education and the organization of sectoral legal research.
Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the theory of law and comparative law, creating the prerequisites for the development of theory and types of legal understanding and further in-depth conceptual study of theoretical and legal categories.
About the Authors
P. K. Mupendana
Parakou University
Benin
Benin
Pierre C. Mupendana – Cand . Sci . (Law), Prof ., Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University Paraku (Benin), lawyer, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda–Arusha–Tanzania, the TRAFIPRO Cooperative, Kigali, Rwanda, President of the Benin Association «Missionaries of Peace and Development of Africa – MIPDA», Executive Secretary of the African Center for Research and Education for Peace and Democracy (CAREP) in Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
BP 123, Parakou, Borgou
V. M. Sapogov
Pskov State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir M. Sapogov – Cand . Sci . (Law), Assoc . Prof ., Department of State and Legal Disciplines and Theory of Law, Institute of Law, Economics and Management.
Pl. Lenina 2, Pskov 180000
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