Seasonal hunger in tropical Africa as a cultural phenomenon. The Onicha Ibo of Nigeria and Chakaka Poka of Malawi examples.
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Miracle argues that if in fact hunger was expected people would work harder and so produce enough to prevent a shortage. Using evidence from two widely separated African communities (on in Eastern Nigeria and the other in Malawi) I propose to show why hunger has to be accepted as…
Decision-Making and Federalising Process in India and Nigeria
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Federal Department of Antiquities, Nigeria: Ethnographic Division
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Book reviews
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Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development. By Richard G. Wilkinson. London: Methuen, 1972. Pp. xi + 225. £2–60. Inducing Technological Change for Economic Growth and Development. Edited by Robert A. Solo and Everett M. Rogers. East Lansing: Michigan State…
Political Anthropology: Cultural and Political Aspects of Rural Transformation: A Case Study of Eastern Nigeria. DAVID R. SMOCK and AUDREY C. SMOCK
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The Foundations of Extra-Mural Work in Ghana, Nigeria and the Sudan
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Workers, Unions, and Development in Africa
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The International Studies Programme of the University of Toronto sponsored a conference on this topic from 6 to 8 April 1973, with participants not only from Canada, but also from Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.…
The defence of bona fide claim of right in Nigeria
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The trend of some Nigerian decisions where the defence of honest claim of right is raised is disturbing and shows a lack of proper appreciation of its scope. The defence is contained in section 23 of the Criminal Code which provides as follows: “A person is not criminally respons…
Irigwe and Rukuba Marriage: A Comparison
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An interesting feature of a number of tribes of the Jos Plateau of Nigeria is that the network of marital rights and duties is vested in several husbands of one woman and thus is more diversified than in most other known African societies.Many of these tribes, including the Irigw…
Irigwe and Rukuba Marriage: A Comparison
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An interesting feature of a number of tribes of the Jos Plateau of Nigeria is that the network of marital rights and duties is vested in several husbands of one woman and thus is more diversified than in most other known African societies.Many of these tribes, including the Irigw…
The Tort of Negligence in Nigeria
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Academic disputation continues as to whether Nigerian courts are bound to apply English decisions subsequent to 1900. From a practical point of view, however, such decisions are treated as authorities which ought to be followed unless there is strong reason to the contrary. In th…
Introduction
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Since the day when, in my first year of teaching, I found myself trying to explain the feudal origins of trover to a puzzled class of Sudanese students, I have had occasional flickers of doubt whether the English law of torts has been one of Britain's most appropriate colonial le…
Corroboration in the Nigerian law of evidence
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An end to slavishness? a note on Alli v. Okulaja
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“At present, indeed, the Nigerian courts tend slavishly to follow any English decision”. This recent decision of the High Court of Lagos State, however, appears to be the first example of a judicial refusal to follow an English precedent, other than in cases involving the measure…
English Matrimonial Cruelty Law in Nigeria: Dead or Alive?
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The Nigerian Matrimonial Causes Decree of 1970' suggests farreaching innovations in Nigeria's matrimonial cruelty law.Of particular interest is its divergence from English matrimonial provisions, which, until 1970, had been incorporated automatically into the Nigerian law.Althoug…
The Role of the Courts in the Process of National Integration in Nigeria
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Integration of Customary and Modern Legal Systems in Africa. Edited for the Institute of African Studies by the Law Faculty of the University of Ife, Nigeria. [New York: Africana Publishing Corporation; and Ile-Ife, Nige
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African Studies Research Committee for Southern Africa
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THE Ethnographic Division of the Department of Antiquities has been established at Enugu, East Central State.It is housed in the National Archives, Colliery Road, but it is hoped that it will soon move to its own offices in the National Museum, Enugu.Ethnographic research is at p…
Law Reports in Nigeria
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The Conflict Between Foreign and Traditional Culture in Nigeria
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