ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the crisis in orientation of African African legal ethics. In modern history, the Euro-West has served as a source of inspiration in theorizing and in practicing legal ethics. Africans have been indoctrinated into ignoring or into disregarding indigenous African sources of inspiration and have been led to ignore or disregard Asian and other non-Western sources of inspiration. Today, African African theorizing and practicing legal ethics calls for a reorientation, for a paradigm shift in thinking about law, about ethics, and about the relation they have with each other. Africans are to turn away from taking the Euro-West as the sole source of inspiration in thinking about legal ethics and incorporate both African and other non-Euro-Western regions. What must take place in this shift is an event that is as radical – if not more radical – than a Copernican revolution.
