Introduction: Colonial Systems of Control
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Introduction
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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Penal Coloniality
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Within contemporary African society and the diaspora there is an understanding that colonialism has transformed into neocolonialism.
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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An Evolution of the Penal System: Criminal Justice in Nigeria
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This chapter looks at the historical circumstances that came together to implement the Nigerian Prison Service and how they have affected its performance. What challenges has the institution been …
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
14
2008
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The Militarization of Nigerian Society
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This chapter makes a demand not only on Nigeria’s political and civil society leaders but also on the international community, particularly policy-makers in Europe and the United States …
Biko Agozino
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Another Face of Slavery
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After the abolition of slavery and the slave trade towards the end of the eighteenth century, people around the world, particularly the black race, were gladdened in body and in mind because it …
Osadolor Eribo
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2008
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My Nigerian Prison Experience
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I, Clever Akporherhe, stayed in Kirikin medium security prison for a period of one year and six months. On the day of my admission I became seriously sick. I complained to the officer or warden, …
Clever Akporherhe
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My Story
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This system does not have an agenda for reformation or rehabilitation. It is a system of practical exploitation and subjugation through constant pressure. The threat under law has a hidden …
Chris Affor
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2008
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A Tribute to Solidarity: My Oasis
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Prisoners are rejected people, abandoned by society and ignored by the world as a whole. Social discomfort with the unknown leaves those ” tagged” as prisoners to become the …
Chris Affor
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2008
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June 14, 2003
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I am currently in prison for an alleged robbery offence but have yet to face trial. In Nigeria, if you don’t have money, you cannot come out of prison, sometimes for life.
Igho Odibo
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The System I Have Come to Know
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I was arrested on April 17,1992. I was taken to the Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja, where I was hung like a monkey from the ceiling, with my hands holding up the rest of my body.
Sylvester Monday Anagaba
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2008
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Man's Inhumanity to Man
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I have been in this prison for nine years now, but something that I cannot forget until they put me inside a grave took place on May 20, 1995. On that fateful day there was a slaughter like I …
Sylvester Monday Anagaba
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2008
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Patriotism: Illusion or Reality?
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The epoch of political instability, chaos, ethnic rivalry, and the continued existence of colonial boundaries defining nations in West Africa gave birth to a period of armed insurgence and war in …
Osadolor Eribo
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2008
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Nigerian Penal Interactions
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The reflections presented in this chapter emerge from a daily journal I kept during my time as a community organizer and activist inside Nigerian prisons. The experiences I had were inundated …
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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Women’s Rights behind Walls
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This chapter offers a comparative approach to issues faced by criminalized and imprisoned women in several African countries. It also highlights the voices of resistance, especially women …
Mechthild Nagel
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2008
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Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law
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The Daniel case problematizes the common-sense equation between crime and punishment, and demonstrates that what is considered “criminal” is situational and culturally specific. In …
Biko Agozino
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2008
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Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons
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It has been argued that the mentally ill are victims of two failed public policies: the failure of public officials to ensure an effective mental health system, and an overly ambitious criminal …
Uju Agomoh
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2008
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Women, Law, and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: Understanding the Inadequacies of Western Scholarship
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This chapter focuses on women in the contemporary northern Nigerian context: their interactions with pluralities of law in northern Nigeria, and the modes of resistance they employ in facing …
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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Fela Kuti’s Wahala Music: Political Resistance through Song
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Music was used as a culturally appropriate tool of political resistance by Fela Kuti in Nigeria during an era of military regimes. Within the historical and spiritual contexts of Fela’s …
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in Africa
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The concept and implementation of community service orders are presented as a practical alternative to imprisonment. The chapter also puts forward the rationale for the call for more viable and …
Chukwuma Ume
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The Igbo Indigenous Justice System
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This chapter examines the indigenous justice system of the Igbo of southeast Nigeria from restorative, transformative, and communitarian principles.
O. Oko Elechi
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2008
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Penal Abolitionist Theories and Ideologies
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Two questions about the penal abolitionist perspective are whether it represents is a theory of crime and whether it can or does address the nature of crime. Here I will illustrate that penal …
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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The Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X)
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Following a long line of academic literature, and growing through activist affiliations, this chapter outlines penal abolitionism as it was presented to the Nigerian community in efforts to …
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
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2008
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