Legal thought in Africa

Anyone who takes an interest in the study of legal thought and the philosophy of law in Africa today necessarily owes a debt to legal thinkers not only African but also foreign. In matters of legal thought one cannot discharge this debt by abdicating one's legal capacity. By compensation a debt of thought is never extinguished. We will conclude with an observation in Africa: a study of the adventures of legal subjectivity despite certain considerable contributions by authors remains largely to be done. It could perhaps be written no longer by simply placing the subject at the foundation of modernity but by considering it rather as the turning point of the moderns around which complex intrigues of legal science in Africa are tied played out and foiled.