ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights differing normative ideas about law derived from the plurality of contexts in which they come into being and the ways in which they intersect with one another, whether in local, national, regional or transnational arenas. It engages with a number of these fields simultaneously along with their political underpinnings. The book demonstrates how these aspects of law with their greater degree of interconnectedness do not produce homogeneous outcomes in their application, but result in the making of highly diverse, uneven, and unequal sets of relationships. It reveals the complex aftermath of this model of law, as it exists today in postcolonial African states, and the dilemmas that it presents in dealing with contemporary questions of governance in a postnational landscape.
