Independent Africa : : The Challenge to the Legal Profession / / L. C. B. Gower.
"My intention [is] to provide a frank criticism of the British colonial legacies to countries which I have come to love and admire and a sincere unsycophantic tribute to those who are now struggling with the problems flowing from these legacies." In this book, an expanded version of The Ol...
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Gower, L. C. B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Independent Africa : The Challenge to the Legal Profession / L. C. B. Gower. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©1967 1 online resource (154 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Pre-Independence : The Colonial Legacy -- II. Post-Independence: Husbanding or Squandering the Inheritance? -- III. The Legal Profession -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "My intention [is] to provide a frank criticism of the British colonial legacies to countries which I have come to love and admire and a sincere unsycophantic tribute to those who are now struggling with the problems flowing from these legacies." In this book, an expanded version of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures he delivered at Harvard University in 1966, Mr. Gower first looks at some of the legacies of colonialism inherited by those nations of Tropical Africa which recently gained independence from Britain: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. These various legacies include arbitrary national boundaries imposed long before independence; British-style education, government, civil service, military forces, and police; respect for the rule of law (and a residual contempt for it as a result of colonial associations); underdeveloped and unbalanced economies; hostility toward the West, including American "dollar-imperialism," and a hypersensitivity to criticism from that quarter. Mr. Gower continues with an assessment of what has happened to these legacies since independence and what seems likely to happen to them in the next few decades. His central concern is the challenge thus implied for the indigenous legal professions, but his study has far wider implications. In conclusion Mr. Gower describes how the legal professions were organized at the time of independence in the various countries and what progress has been made in producing the kinds of lawyers needed to solve the urgent problems these countries face. He suggests what the United States can and should-and occasionally what it should not-do to help. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Afrique, politique interieure, Droit. Colonies. Grande-Bretagne, questions coloniales. Political science. Practice of law. Recht. Africa -- Politics and government. Law -- Africa. Lawyers -- Africa. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. LAW / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Law & Political Science eBook Package 9783110353495 ZDB-23-HLP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674492394 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674492400 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674492400 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674492400.jpg |
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