The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa / 
edited by Olaf Zenker and Markus Virgil Hoehne. 
 - xi, 232 pages :  illustrations, maps  25 cm. 
 - Cultural diversity and law .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Processing the paradox : when the state has to deal with customary law / Olaf Zenker & Markus Virgil Hoehne -- Bush-level bureaucrats in South African land restitution : implementing state law under chiefly rule / Olaf Zenker -- State police and tradition in post-war Mozambique : the dilemmas of claiming sovereignty in legal pluralistic contexts / Helene Maria Kyed -- Mixing oil and water? : colonial state justice and the challenge of witchcraft accusations in central Equatoria, Southern Sudan / Cherry Leonardi -- When the state is forced to deal with local law : approaches of and challenges for state actors in emerging south sudan / Katrin Seidel -- Co-opted, abolished, democratized : the Guinean state's strategies towards elders / Anita Schroven -- State-orchestrated access to land dispute settlement in Africa : land conflicts and new-wave land reform in Tanzania / Rasmus H. Pedersen -- One country, two systems : hybrid political orders (HPOs) and legal and political friction in Somaliland / Markus Virgil Hoehne -- The complexity of legal pluralist settings : an afterword / Janine Ubink. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409468639 (hbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017041704 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Customary law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KQC105  / .S73 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340.50967