Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality

Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and
contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence –
portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens,
Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited. Postulating
the theory of global jurisprudential apartheid, the book accounts for
biases in various legal systems, norms, values and conventions that bind
Africans while affording impunity to Western states.

Drawing on
contemporary notions of animism, transhumanism, posthumanism and science
and technology studies, the book critically interrogates the
possibility of a jurisprudence of anticipation which is attentive to the
emergent New World Order that engineers ‘human beings to become
nonhumans’ while ‘nonhumans become humans’. Connecting discourses on
decoloniality with jurisprudence in the areas of family law,
environment, indigenisation, property, migration, constitutionalism,
employment and labour law, commercial law and Ubuntu, the book also
juggles with emergent issues around Earth Jurisprudence, ecocentrism,
wild law, rights of nature, Earth Court and Earth Tribunal. Arguing for
decoloniality that attends to global jurisprudential apartheid., this
tome is handy for legal scholars and practitioners, social scientists,
civil society organisations, policy makers and researchers interested in
transformation, decoloniality and Pan-Africanism.