African African legal ethics as an expression of African African culture

The chapter presents African African legal ethics as an expression of African culture, as a sustainer and promoter of African culture. As such, it calls for the decolonization of the culture inherited from the colonial period. The notion of law, as is the case with the notion of ethics, expresses a people’s culture. The affirmation of African in the investigation of African African legal ethics is not an attempt to return to pre-colonial Africa – an impossible undertaking – or to place African culture in a closet. Intermingling of world cultures is a reality of our time and the construction of an African African legal ethics cannot ignore it. An African African legal ethics of today cannot be an African African legal ethics of tomorrow. Moreover, cultures are open and will remain open. The African cultural context of African African legal ethics is not immunized against change.