Table of Content
Frontmatter — Preface — Table of contents — 1. Introduction — 2. Establishing paternity and demanding child support in a Ghanaian town — 3. Law in the context of Nkoya society — 4. Family dispute settlement and the Zambian judiciary: local-level legal adaptation — 5. To claim or not to claim: changing views about the restitution of marriage prestations among the Anufom in Northern Togo — 6. Judicial manipulation of customary family law in Tanzania — 8. Problems of creation and dissolution of customary marriages in Nigeria — 9. The effect of marriage on the status of children in Ghana — 10. The choice of law dilemma in Lesotho: some criteria for decision making in family law — 11. Marriage in Kwahu, Ghana — 12. The emergence of the ‘stranger-permit marriage’ and other new forms of conjugal union in rural Sierra Leone — 13. Nullity of marriage and divorce: relevance of a western distinction to modern African law — 14. The Kgatla marriage: concepts of validity — Bibliography
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