Open AccessNatural Justice in Africa
Author(s) -
Max Gluckman
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
the american journal of jurisprudence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2049-6494
pISSN - 0065-8995
DOI - 10.1093/ajj/9.1.25
Subject(s) - natural (archaeology) , economic justice , political science , environmental ethics , philosophy , law , history , archaeology
THIS ESSAY presents evidence which shows that Africans always had some idea of natural justice, and of a rule of law that bound their kings, even if they had not developed these indigenous conceptions in abstract terms. Their failure to do so is accounted for by their lack of writing; a written language is to a large extent necessary if people are to elaborate conceptions into some kind of theory.
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