The new Constitution does not mention African Customary Law, and the Judicature Act is the only enactment which acknowledges the existence of the body of largely unwritten laws that have been derived ...

Following this judgment, it’s more important than ever that anyone getting married, whether in a traditional ceremony, at the ...

Let children be children.’ This is the one of the messages that resonated most with participants during the many meetings preceding and informing the reform of customary law, also known as Naath law.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African governments should recognize customary rights to water for millions of small farmers who have been sidelined or "criminalized" by permit systems created ...

Around 73% of land in sub-Saharan Africa is held under customary systems, far above the global average. Yet only 1% of these lands are formally recognized in national legal frameworks, according to a ...

The scope of women’s customary rights in Nigeria came under interrogation recently at this years’ Diaspora scholars lecture of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), Lagos, writes ...

When South Africa adopted its Constitution in 1994, the promise was not only political freedom but participatory governance. It was a commitment that laws would be shaped by the lived realities of the ...