Introduction to African Legal Philosophy

This is an introductory book on African legal philosophy. The book claims that African legal philosophy exists and is intelligible in the context of African culture, just as every other legal philosophy has its cultural foundation. What law is, how it is thought, how it is interpreted, and how it is applied takes place with thing the parameters of African culture. At a time when the imposition of Western culture on Africans has to be reckoned with, African legal philosophy is, in part, a response to this imposition. It ought to have a liberating effect.

List of contents

Preface
Introducing African Legal Philosophy
African Jurisprudence
Thinking Like an African Lawyer
African Legal Interpretation
Otieno Case and African Jurisprudence
Concluding an African Legal Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

John Murungi holds a doctorate in philosophy and a law degree. His research is in African philosophy, philosophy of law, and in Continental philosophy (Phenomenology and Existentialism), and in aesthetics. He is the Co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place. He founded and runs a series of conferences on Geo-aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: John Murungi, Murungi John
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498556477
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5647-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law