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This book advocates for an Afrocentric approach to intellectual property (IP) law, using lessons from Nigeria's past to encourage reform for the future of Africa's legal IP landscape.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Foreword by Professor Graham Dutfield
Introduction: Rewriting the History of Intellectual Property Law in Africa - A Decolonisation Perspectice
Nkem ItanyiChapter 1 - Decolonising Copyright Theory: Justifying Copyright Ownership Through the Prism of the United Nations Developmental Agenda
Jade KouletakisChapter 2 - From Moonlight Tales to Town Halls to Cinemas: Customary Copyright Practices and Performances that Led to Nollywood in Nigeria
Nkem ItanyiChapter 3 - Traditional Peoples in Africa and Intellectual Property Rights: Losing The Status of Their Jurisprudence and Knowledge Systems
Ayoyemi Lawal-ArowoloChapter 4 - Technology, Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Nigerian Development by
Ike ChimeChapter 5 - Apprenticeship System (Igba Boyi) of Preserving Indigenous Knowledge in Igbo Land, Southast Nigeria and Technology Transfer in Patent Law: A Necessary Linkage
Nneka Chioma EzedumChapter 6 - An overview of the Patenting Scheme: The Nigerian Story
Regina ObiechineChapter 7 - Decolonisation of Methods of Medicine Production and Patents in Nigeria: The Dilemma of Colonial Mentality on Traditional Medicine
Ayoyemi Lawal-Arowolo and Adesoji AdebayoChapter 8 - A Comparative Study of African and Western Mediation Cultures with a Focus on the Music Industry
Seun Lari-WilliamsConclusion: From Passive to Active Voice, or The Start of a Conversation with Africa
Jade Kouletakis
About the author
Dr Jade Kouletakis is an award-winning academic with experience teaching IP Law in multiple higher education institutions across two continents since 2014. She has been an invited keynote speaker at the University of Cambridge; University of St Andrews; and the Scottish Law and Innovation Network. She has published one of the 'most read' articles and the second 'most read' article on the websites of the Journal of World Intellectual Property (for whom she peer-reviews) and GRUR International: Journal of European and International IP Law. For REF 2021, she produced a maximum number of REF-qualifying outputs and submitted an Impact Case Study.
Nkem Itanyi is a law lecturer and academic researcher specialising in Intellectual Property Law. She has over two decades of experience in research and teaching across two continents. With an impressive record of academic scholarship, she holds a PhD in Intellectual Property Law from Queen's University Belfast, an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from University College London, and an LLB (Hons) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Nkem's research is active; she is well published in law and has been cited in leading peer-reviewed academic journals indexed in Clarivate Web of Science, Scopus, and other databases. Her expertise extends to Media Law and the intersection of IP and AI.
