Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa: Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The book critically evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies with a view to determining their effectiveness in the context of the societies’ history and culture, and the relevance and adaptability of these strategies in contemporary contexts. This book takes a scholarly approach, avoiding romanticizing or idealizing indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It advocates a set of mechanisms by which the best elements of indigenous knowledge and skills in conflict management may be deployed to settle contemporary disputes, and made portable for adoption and adaptation by other complex societies in the region and beyond.

Contributions by: Akanmu G. Adebayo, Mustapha Abdallah, Olutayo C. Adesina, Olalérè Adéye?mí, James Eje Agena, Joseph Kingsley Adjei, Stephen Ojong Agbor, George Olusola Ajibade, Luke A. Amadi, Felix Chinwe Asogwa, Jesse J. Benjamin, Serwaa Brewoo, Sarah Okaebea Danso, Ifeanyi F. Didiugwu, Emmanuel Joseph Chukwuma Duru, Willie Aziegbe Eselebor, Fonkem Achankeng, Henry Kam Kah, Brandon D. Lundy, Clement Olusegun Olaniran Kolawole, Toluwalope Olajumoke Kolawole, Solomon Losha, Joan Mbagwu, Severus Ifeanyi Odoziobodo, Silk Ugwu Ogbu, Kolawole Olaiya, Joana Ama Osei-Tutu