TY - BOOK AU - Zenker,Olaf AU - Höhne,Markus Virgil TI - The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa T2 - Cultural diversity and law SN - 9781409468639 (hbk) AV - KQC105 .S73 2018 U1 - 340.50967 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Customary law KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -