ABSTRACT
The introduction makes a case for the Africanization of African legal ethics and for what this process of Africanization calls for. What passes today as African legal ethics is largely an indigenization of a legal ethics exported by or imported from the Euro-West. Africanizing African legal ethics calls for a reclaiming of an indigenous African legal ethics. It calls for an indigenous African rethinking of what law is, what ethics is, and how both stand in relation to each other. Today, this rethinking entails decolonizing prevailing thinking about African legal ethics. It is a process in which African philosophy plays a major role, on condition that it too is subject to the process of decolonization. A decolonized African philosophy has indigenous African roots and takes us beyond the realm of epistemology. To fully understand it, as is the case with an understating of every other branch of philosophy, wisdom must be considered. Knowledge of what constitutes African legal ethics or what it means to Africanize it demands more than knowledge. It incorporates an element of wisdom, an element that must also be incorporated into the ongoing determination of what is African about African legal ethics.
