Otukpo Traditional Oath-Taking: Inside the Powerful History of Justice, Alekwu and Colonial Courts

Otukpo traditional oath-taking belongs to a much wider history of justice, religion and colonial government in Idomaland. A courtroom photograph associated with Otukpo in the 1950s depicts a period when customary ideas about truth and spiritual obligation remained important even as British-established administrative and judicial institutions had become firmly rooted in the region.Otukpo, now...

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