Law and the Public Sphere in Africa La Palabre and Other Writings

Name: Law and the Public Sphere in Africa La Palabre and Other Writings
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ISBN: 9780253011244

ISBN-10: 0253011248

ISBN-13: 9780253011244

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Laura Hengehold, Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Laura Hengehold

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Jean-Godefroy Bidima’s La Palabre examines the traditional African institution of palaver as a way to create dialogue and open exchange in an effort to resolve conflict and promote democracy. In the wake of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and the gacaca courts in Rwanda, Bidima offers a compelling model of how to develop an African public space where dialogue can combat misunderstanding. This volume, which includes other essays on legal processes, cultural diversity, memory, and the internet in Africa, offers English-speaking readers the opportunity to become acquainted with a highly original and important postcolonial thinker.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/11/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Preface to the English Edition



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Speech, Belief, Power Laura Hengehold


La Palabre: The Legal Authority of Speech



The Public Space of Palabre



A Political Paradigm



Convergent Suspicions



A Difficult Place in Political Thought


Other Essays



Rationalities and Legal Processes in Africa



Strategies for "Constructing Belief" in the African Public Space: "The Colonization of the Life-world"



African Cultural Diversity in the Media



Books between African Memory and Anticipation



The Internet and the African Academic World


Notes


Bibliography


Index