Law in Africa
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Law in Africa
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Africa's fifty-six sovereign states range widely in their history and structure, and their laws are variously defined by customary law, religious law, common law, Western civil law, other legal traditions, and combinations thereof. Prior to the colonial era in the nineteenth century, Africa's legal system was dominated by the traditional laws of the native people. The efforts to maintain the indigenous practices against the rising Continental European and Great British powers, though unsuccessfu
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wiki
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Legal systems in Africa's 56 sovereign states
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_in_Africa
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2023-11-09T13:24:05Z
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