Law in Africa spans the fifty six independent nations of the continent, whose legal systems are variously defined by customary law, religious law, common law, Western civil law, and combinations of these traditions. The resulting diversity reflects the distinct colonial and precolonial history of each country as well as differences in constitutional and institutional structure from one African state to the next. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Africa's fifty-six sovereign states range widely in their history and structure, and their laws are variously defined by customary law, religious law, common law, Western civil law, other legal traditions, and combinations thereof.
In Group: Mixed and Pluralist Legal Systems of Africa, Introduction, sentence 1
Africa's fifty-six sovereign states range widely in their history and structure, and their laws are variously defined by customary law, religious law, common law, Western civil law, other legal traditions, and combinations thereof.
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