My Chapter in Decolonizing Justice
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On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Good job, Biko! The topic comes with currency and relevance. Thanks for being our collective voice in the intellectual world of criminal justice.MOA
On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 06:44:36 PM GMT+1, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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Biko Agozino
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“Decolonizing Justice” is such a beautiful title. It sounds like the title of a South African poetry anthology, with an introduction by Marcus Mosiah Garvey in the same spirit as his poem titled, “The Tragedy of White Injustice”
De-colonizing Injustice
De-colonising your mind
De-colonising your brain
De-colonising your grammar
Talking about “The Grammar of Being.”
How soon will ideas be translated into action - reform? Systemic change? Overhauling the whole rotten system: those parts that are rotten. One bad apple spoils the whole barrel.
I suppose that the book itself, “The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice” is the kind of long letter that the writers would like to forward to the likes of Julius Maada Bio, his henchman Mohammed Konneh, and last but not least, the current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone and whoever they are or think that they are who are competent enough to judge that declaring Bio winner of 56.1 % of the popular vote is, in fact, a travesty of justice.
The only Justice system that I suppose doesn’t fall within Biko and Co’s ambit, is Sharia Law and the Sharia Courts. The Islamic gold standard of justice. Obviously, those don’t have to be “ decolonised” - Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity , yes but not
“ decolonisation”
I’m just warming up to respond to Ken’s question, “cornelius what is your take on this election?”
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Biko Agozino
Cornelius Hamelberg
More appropriately, in addition to Great Congratulations, it has to be a Great Many Thanks Biko Agozino & Co for fighting the good fight, decolonising justice on behalf of us non-specialists in criminology and criminal law.
( The corrupt mfs are of course specialists - in corruption - madmen & specialists, and due to the inefficiencies in the legal system get away with murder etc, robbing us in broad daylight, with impunity, when they should be behind bars!)
The fact is that some of these books don’t get read by all and sundry. From what I’ve gathered from some of your blog pieces and youtube lectures, I suppose since we inherited democracy along with the legal systems with the wigs, warts, and all, almost wholesale from the colonial masters, the decolonisation is / can be a slow and painful ongoing process - in some cases painful because of the resistance by some of the forces of darkness who don’t know what time it is when Biko Agozino & Linton Kwesi Johnson are all about Forces of Victory.
As you are aware, on the whole, lawyers/practitioners of law, including judges, belong to the most conservative profession.( My daughter Louise, Monarch's Prize for England and Wales, First class, first/ first - Gold Medalist, etc, a specialist in The European Convention on Human Rights, once told me, “ I’m in love with the law”
Hopefully, far from gathering dust and rust on bookshelves, there will be avenues whereby at least some of your ideas will radically impact policy; to which end I can see no reason why someone like you should not be on an advisory board to e.g President Tinubu and his soon to be announced mother of all attorney-generals, making relevant and useful yours and other academic works on such matters.
Organise, don't just agonize...
Two heads are better than one; perhaps, Ojogbon would like to organise a conference to that end?
In a country where the word “ Revolution” is anathema, I suppose that the use of the term reform could be a little less controversial than “decolonise” which is wholly in the realm of ideology, confrontation, and challenge.
Consider :
BBC: Rwanda
BBC: Marijuana
In terms of decolonisation and reform, does the radical professor see a clear path to victory?