ABSTRACT
There are literally thousands of articles, monographs and books devoted to the subject of folk law, written in hundreds of different languages. At the moment, there is no one comprehensive bibliography listing all these many sources. But even the limited bibliographies which are available demonstrate the enormity of the published record of folk law. Typical are R.L. Abel, “A Bibliography of the Customary Laws of Kenya,” East African Law Journal, 6 (1970), 100–151; C.K. Meek, Colonial Law: A Bibliography with special reference to native African systems of law and land tenure (London: Oxford University Press, 1948); Th. Gerold-Scheepers, “An Annotated Bibliography on Disparity between Law and Social Reality in Africa,” Kroniek van Afrika, 4 (1975), 76–84; and Charles Mwalimu, “A Bibliographic Essay of Selected Secondary Sources on the Common Law and Customary Law of English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa,” Law Library Journal, 80 (1988), 241–289.
