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Judicial Precedent in Africa Revisited

One of the central facts, if not the most important of all, about the general legal systems of African countries is that they are derived wholly or partly from the legal systems of foreign countries, usually those of the former colonial power, though this is by no means the only source which has been drawn upon. Thus in Commonwealth Africa there has been extensive borrowing not only from the law of England, but from British India, from the provinces of South Africa, and to a less extent from other common-law jurisdictions, such as Queensland, New Zealand and Canada. This wholesale adoption of …