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2023. Hammond, Ama F., Editor. Adegbite, Folashade Rose, Editor. Mensa-Bonsu, Maame Yaa A., Editor. Batariwah, Prosper, Editor. Family Law in Africa, Perspectives on Selected Systems of Marriage. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2023. xiv, 567 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616196844. ISBN-10: 161619684X. Hardcover. New. $150. * A title in the JCL Studies in Comparative Law, Second Series. The probable place of the origins of humanity, the African continent constitutes a regional laboratory of comparative law, among the richest on the planet. For the legal comparatist it has everything to offer: the earliest possible origins of law and legal systems; a remarkable plethora of ethnic identities and affiliations; an impressive history of customary and theological laws; the experience of being practitioners and subjects of colonial experience; the purveyors and recipients of alien and competitive laws and legal systems within Africa; objects of Christian and Islamic proselytizing; the legal impact of slavery; and… Read More