Seminar "New Directions in African Family Law", Leiden, 30th September - 4th October 1974
Subtitle: [papers].
Publisher: Afrika-Studiecentrum
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Subjects: Domestic relations -- Africa -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: New directions in African family law
Notes: In English, with some papers in French.

Cover title.

[1] Accommodation of internationally mixed marriages in African family law and relations / paper presented by Kodwo Mensah-Brown -- [2] African family law and research in South Africa today : prospects and problems / paper presented by R.S. Suttner -- [3] Changing marital relations among the Nyakyusa, Rungwe District, Tanzania / paper presented by Jan J. Konter -- [4] The civil jurisdiction of the national traditional Appeal Court in Malawi. Divorce and rationale / paper presented by L.J. Chimango -- [5] To claim or not to claim, changing views about the restitution of marriage payments among the Tyokosi in Northern Togo / paper presented by Emile A.B. Van Rouveroy Van Nieuwaal -- [6] Conditions de validité du marriage et légitimate des enfants / paper presented by Louis Koffi Amega -- [7] The curtailment of the legal husband's rights / paper presented by Ulrica Rijnsdorp -- [8] L'image de la femme mariée en Afrique Noire d'après les écrits des juristes français au temps colonial / paper presented by Raymond Verdier -- [9] The impact of economic development on customary marriages in Nigeria / paper presented by Richard Olufemi Ekundare -- [10] Kinship, marriage and urban-rural relations : a preliminary study of law and social control among the Nkoya of Kaoma district and of Lusaka, Zambia / paper presented by Wim M.J. van Binsbergen -- [11] Marriage and the myth of illegitimacy of children in Uganda / paper presented by J.M.N. Kokooza -- [12] Problems of the dissolution of customary law marriages in Nigeria / paper presented by Edwin Ifeanyi Nwogugu -- [13] Some influences on customary law in Sierra Leone / paper presented by Barbara E. Harrell-Bond -- [14] The supremacy of the English form of marriage over customary marriage in some former British African countries / paper presented by C. Ogwurike.

Includes bibliographical references.