the african law reports: commercial law seriesby alan milner

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The Royal African Society The African Law Reports: Commercial Law Series by Alan Milner Review by: H. F. M. African Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 269 (Oct., 1968), p. 376 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/721026 . Accessed: 17/06/2014 11:31 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Oxford University Press and The Royal African Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to African Affairs. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.34.79.192 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:31:40 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Page 1: The African Law Reports: Commercial Law Seriesby Alan Milner

The Royal African Society

The African Law Reports: Commercial Law Series by Alan MilnerReview by: H. F. M.African Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 269 (Oct., 1968), p. 376Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/721026 .

Accessed: 17/06/2014 11:31

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

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Oxford University Press and The Royal African Society are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve andextend access to African Affairs.

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Page 2: The African Law Reports: Commercial Law Seriesby Alan Milner

376 AFRICAN AFFAIRS

SHORTER NOTICES

La Dynamique des Techniques Agraires en Afrique Tropical du Nord, by Henri Raulin. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1967. 202pp. Fr. 36. This survey deals with a theme of great importance and covers a region that is far too little known among English speaking peoples : the primarily French-speaking area between the Sahara and the Gulf of Guinea, and between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nile. The author writes with 'grass roots' thoroughness and it is refreshing and illuminating to be taken through problems of rural development in a way that is far removed from the planners' statistical aggregates and projections. It is also a most healthy antidote to the analyses made by those experts who all too frequently ignore historical antecedents and the cultural and physical environment of the people concerned. M. Raulin has fully grasped the totality of change and the delicate balance that exists between techniques, soil conditions, history, psychology, population structure, and so on. 'Si aujourd'hui, les procedes techniques qui sont

proposes par les sp6cialistes europ6ens ne paraissent pas obtenir la diffusion

qu'ils esperaient, il convient d'examiner les raisons-davantage sociales que techniques-de leur refus.' (p.175).

This book helps to explain the reasons and is of real value not only to those who seek to understand the process of change in Africa from an academic

standpoint, but also for those who, from foreign societies, seek to advise African governments. T. S.

The African Law Reports: Commercial Law Series, edited by Alan Milner et al. Oceana Publications, 1968. 625pp. $20.00 The project for the publi- cation of the African Law Reports was initiated in 1966, operating under an editorial grant from the Ford Foundation, administered by the SAILER

project of the International Legal Centre, New York. The general editor, Dr. Milner, is a Fellow of Trinity College Oxford and was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. The value of the project lies primarily in its international character, in that it

proposes to present reports from most of the English speaking jurisdictions of Africa in a series of volumes from which information as to the development in the law on a particular topic in the different common law countries of Africa can be easily discovered. The general approach is to publish a number of series each devoted to a specfic topic, the first being on commercial law. The

1965 volume is the first in this series and it is proposed to follow this with

coverage of subsequent years and also to provide retrospective coverage back to 1900. The present volume contains reports of sixty-seven cases taken from

Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Liberia and the Sudan :

fifty-six of these cases come from the first four countries. The project is to be warmly welcomed by all concerned with the development of the large number of legal systems in Africa which share a common law tradition.

H. F. M.

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