Literal ‘Decolonization’

Abstract

This chapter explores the role of African scholars in the context of the battle for international law. It focuses on scholars who were less prominent than Taslim O Elias or Mohammed Bedjaoui, but who also played an important role in internal African debates on post-colonial international law. It touches on the contextual nature of decolonization and the various viewpoints established by African scholars and provides a more nuanced account of African international legal scholarship. In taking this direction, the chapter thus attempts, within the scholarship and literature of decolonization, to unearth original voices that have largely been forgotten outside of Africa.