Law and the public sphere in Africa : La palabre and other writings
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Law and the public sphere in Africa : La palabre and other writings
（World philosophies / Bret W. Davis, and Alejandro Vallega, editors）
Indiana University Press, c2014
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La palabre : une juridiction de la parole
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Translation of: La palabre : une juridiction de la parole
Originally published: Paris : Michalon, 1997
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Preface to the English Edition Jean Godefroy Bidima
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speech, Belief, Power Laura Hengehold
La Palabre: The Legal Authority of Speech
1. The Public Space of Palabre
2. A Political Paradigm
3. Convergent Suspicions
4. A Difficult Place in Political Thought
Other Essays
1. Rationalities and Legal Processes in Africa
2. Strategies for "Constructing Belief" in the African Public Space: "The Colonization of the Life-world"
3. African Cultural Diversity in the Media
4. Books between African Memory and Anticipation
5. The Internet and the African Academic World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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