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Title:Africa and International Law: The Emergence to Statehood
Author:Wallace-Bruce, Nii LanteISNI
Year:1985
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:23
Issue:4
Period:December
Pages:575-602
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:State
international law
independence
History and Exploration
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/160680
Abstract:Analysis of the emergence of Africa to statehood from the precolonial period onwards, emphasizing that most of the colonies and protectorates acquired by the European powers were obtained through treaties of cession with African rulers. The effect of colonialism, therefore, was to interrupt temporarily the sovereignty of those African states which were existing on the eve of colonialism. When they began to achieve statehood after World War II, the African states were, in fact, regaining the independence which they had enjoyed for centuries previously. Notes.
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