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Title:Conflict and conflict resolution in indigenous Africa
Author:Tasie, G.I.K.
Year:2014
Periodical:Journal of Oriental and African Studies
Volume:23
Pages:172-184
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Igbo
conflict resolution
traditional society
Abstract:In this essay, the author draws attention to the existence of well-articulated social control mechanisms in traditional Africa that can be used for conflict resolution, especially among the Igbo of south-eastern Nigeria. These mechanisms may be at variance with western patterns, but achieve the same aims, and in many instances, more effectively so. Traditional causes of conflict include land disputes, suspicions of witchcraft and sorcery, sexual offences, marriage conflicts and political successions. Mechanisms may involve the taking of oaths, consulting oracles, invoking the help of divinities and ancestor-spirits, compensating victims, controlling peers in age set organizations or secret societies, punishing criminals and evil-doers, restoring a general moral disposition by festivals, exiling murderers, and fining disputants by mediators. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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