The dawn of legal acculturation in Nigeria: a significant development in law and national integration: Olowu v. Olowu

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Title:	The dawn of legal acculturation in Nigeria: a significant development in law and national integration: Olowu v. Olowu
Author:	Sagay, I.E.
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Journal of African Law
Volume:	30
Issue:	2
Pages:	179-189
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	acculturation jurisprudence
Abstract:	The recent decision of Nigeria's Supreme Court in Adeniyi Olowu & Ors. v. Olabowale Olowu & Anor (1985) to the effect that a person belonging originally to one ethnic group can by a process involving time, association, marriage, personal wishes and manner of life, become assimilated into and thereby legally acquire the status of another ethnic group, is of great significance. It gives legal backing to the promotion of social and national integration and establishes very clearly that courts in fact make law. In particular the Court has promoted the attainment of one of the goals of Chapter II of the 1979 Constitution of Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State policy, namely section 15 which calls for unity and national integration. Ref.