The coloniality and evolution of African customary law

Martha Gayoye

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl.1976

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Martha Gayoye Keele University School of Law https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5218-9840

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.1976

Palabras clave:

derecho consuetudinario africano, colonialidad, legalidades poscoloniales, cláusulas de repugnancia, primogenitura masculina, reformas constitucionales, reformas judiciales

Resumen

El derecho consuetudinario africano es un importante sistema jurídico que regula la vida de muchas personas. Los orígenes coloniales de este cuerpo jurídico hicieron que no siempre haya servido a las necesidades de justicia de los africanos. La colonialidad y las legalidades poscoloniales de Upendra Baxi son útiles para dar sentido al Derecho consuetudinario africano, en particular al colonialismo de colonos. Este artículo se centra en las implicaciones de género del Derecho consuetudinario africano, en particular la primogenitura masculina. Examina la aplicación de las cláusulas de repugnancia y el tratamiento de la primogenitura masculina en siete antiguos colonialismos de colonos británicos en África meridional, oriental y occidental: Zimbabue, Sudáfrica, Kenia, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana y Nigeria. Los diversos casos analizados muestran las implicaciones históricas de género del derecho consuetudinario africano y las aplicaciones contradictorias o absurdas de las cláusulas de repugnancia, así como su evolución bajo nuevos ordenamientos constitucionales y reformas judiciales en las últimas dos décadas para revertir su discriminación de género.

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Martha Gayoye, Keele University School of Law

Lecturer/Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Keele University, School of Law

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