the, the the, i am theater, the move uh, in the hot of night roll be can yeah. in our beds to unravel the things about under around the continent of africa. today we focus on a political issue, critical and important. this state does of what is sometimes described as or try bull nose. i choose not to use the word drive,

but for additional africa, no visa v. the laws that were imposed on african peoples by the colonized as depending on who colonize who. but before we get into that space, it is important to appreciate that african communities, odd sophisticated laws that talk on different aspects of their lives. the man who as document that is better than anybody else is check on 30 off of sender guys. in many of his books he has been able to demonstrate that off. it's kind of society is, was sophisticated so that if you went to the vampire are people, is the money that they are on low inside. it is now upset that the money shot the getting there a no soon as the stuff gate, though miley, the,

i've already called you, if i don't know which was really uh, uh, to the universal declaration of human rights. you know, the, what the system, the government and that what if you look at the right does such as she knew i ship it when he drops the bodies. you book community it is fiction of books, things fall apart. it talks about law is that exists there while organize them prize. if you look at the yellow but people's they are on the point on your look at the when you're a kid, todd, i in uganda. the about gun and a new gun and there's a new kingdom and many of the communities in the continent of africa. they are organized those yeah. in can. yeah. if you look at the walk that was done by jermel kenyatta on facing mount, kara. yeah. is but to demonstrate the value of quail of kenya, ah, laws that govern the well being among the newest,

can you re of the quantity will of von boyer so that essentially when one looks, oh or no one sees that off. it's on countries pod traditions that well stop relies on that these wire disrupted when they put on it is scamming to the continent of africa with the rent of corner. nice vision. a number of things happen . number one that they put under this came in with the administrators. they also came in with the missionaries. and they also came in with on sort of part of this. and when they came in for purposes of the donation of african peoples, one of the things that they did was to em impose the legal visit, the country that was hold on eyes by the british pod. what was described the chrome on low countries that was corner nice by the died. and of course, the audience,

a system of law which was direct her eyes as the judge roman law, all the countries that was going on, eyes by the french, also had the civil that was based on not fully on the chords. so that by the time is that the community sides separated into the continent of africa, a lot of laws which was traditional to africans. i've been decimated. it is also instructive to note or that when the arabs came, there was also they are a bi position and is la maya, vision of large company. and so far for pick up particularly on the cost still spot . so that the laws why it's not me. and it's not even judas prudence the tech route in those are the days the question, the bill for the 3 months us did the interruption between border law as an african

laws effect african, negatively the on such with that question is yes. you know, whenever i think about the manner in which they would've been subdued up with them, there is one movie that comes to my mind. it is a movie called roots by alex haley. it dramatize the life of a young african who is removed from the gum via the young man is called the kentuckian day. and when he is taken away, one of the things that they do is to change his name to toby to make him believe that is no longer a part of his old community. he'd become

a frenchman. and if he was going to nies by the french, you'll become an english. if you are color nice by english, you become my new tale. and if you are color nice, by the time you, you will become anata. if you died young with the items and use these to be enough with them. in other words, the design was to ensure that people are binding to the culture on the cloud. so that was not the own. when you know, watch it very, for example, say that the white man is clever. he took a knife, the unfortunate on the thing. that's how that's together. and we are no longer one bravo is the rising against the brother, sister eyes, then a gaming system. that's in itself, is

a clear dramatize vision of the impact of flooding low on africa. and we only have to examine the influx in different sectors that as a cause i'm in the impact of implanted law in mas overland ownership in can, you know, for example, which was a separate country o, as in bob, we wish to have then no, no solid under these you all exam via then known as nose under a dish. oh my lie. we then known as you know, salon, all nigeria. what they did was to impose the father in law of individual ownership of land. on wednesday, individual rated the lawn stifled spend they started creating conflicts between those who are farm i was on. bill is who are foster list today. african countries find themselves with the legal regimes on land ownership systems,

which on north african the only person who tried to change it of the corner. nice vision was dirty, has come better. i've given you data in based on parts of africa, in the western part of africa. they are lucky the shift and see is why the thing. so a month we are come people, you will still find a lawn. daniel systems which are based on traditional owners. you pulled line in uganda, you still find what is called the milan system, which is based on the background system as been did you do in bring your kids are the out of the country that's bad to solve? the problem was, of course, if the op yeah, because if the appeal was never caught on eyes on for that reason, the line thing a system of the remain on was the into. if you leave alone line,

you go into the area of mine and one of the problems that we are going to mining septa is because the land became individual. and because when line became individual, they in fact is that the individuals can now set a line. and we see those problems, you know, a part of the was in the areas of criminal law. they also brought in criminal laws, which inside the case as was untied, sceptical to african modes of dealing with those who had been gauge in criminal activity. the institutions such as the reason why implanted into the continent of africa. also law of governance was also affected. and i'm always reminded of these words by that great america john henry pluck. when he said upon regaining independence, there is not a single african country,

that's not the system of government that is based on the african tradition on the goal is on to say no african country will. 2 succeed through implemented the systems of government and if one why ever to doubt the conflicts that you see in africa? i indeed as a result of that. but i cannot. but remember how father in law has affected us because by touching as to appetite, sounds offers. when yon vandevere back r i in south africa, and when yon fund read back establishes our posts and they created the opposite side regime. it was based on funding low. it was based on the bible that offers hundreds. why in the city the opera tide regime? that was instituted by the national party and individuals such as hendrick,

5 foot was based on doctoral monroe. and they said that african inside to be dominated. they look at the bible and they said that it was godaddy on full hundreds of years. africans why humiliate? well, i don't mean they fit through, they use the father in law. it is not until 1995 that africans were allowed to vote because there was father in law as i speak to you. and now of all of us, 7 did to my son overland in south africa is controlled by my not in the whites to console father in law. father in law's have destroyed the continental wasik. and that is why today, in many areas of the guns are now beginning to talk about what they call or

tentative dispute resolution. i hate that it is not all the time that the dispute resolution, it is african dispute resolution because african communities in that day was that they had different ways of resolving disputes. the old from will have the way the of them going to of the way the i'll get boy, you'll have the way the them now the way the man they have the way, the back gun, the way there behind the way on the watch diploma. have the way the money i'm with the of the way on die hard the view, the time is now for us to begin to reexamine how we do things, even in month of the governors. they are all had their own democracy under they've got the system. the time is now for us to go back to some of our laws and we are

not to romanticize in culture called size dynamic. it changes and it gets influenced by other cultures. yeah. simply say that our cultures and our traditions on laws which are good and which can reinforce and give us confidence, ought to be given to the pride of place and the laws which are not useful to us on which why imposed on us by the corner knives us ought to be justice on and kept in the museum of history alongside this spinning wheel. on the original printing machine, africa must now give meaning. that gets to our healey saying, watch, i mean the new to more he who bundle is this culture becomes the slave. we can't do it. we must do it on the it has been done in did,

i'd be african level the african jot down human on people is the right is on the been by the realize there's some that africans have something unique thing that they do for themselves. and that is why the split overboard into must be given is probably the place as we continue with the conversations about the continent of africa, we dissolve the brakes. and that is why we say or buys in the knowledge that we really interrupt the game. as we continue this political conversation, thank you and bye bye the the

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