Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Advent of colonial rule: shaping the legal landscape
  • Changing traditions and marriage laws: seeyi, lu ko taka, tasul ko (divorce is more complicated than consummation of marriage)
  • Making the city: the Gambia colony and the Protectorate, 1816-1965
  • Qadi court: crisis of legitimization
  • Qadis, complainants, and settlements: case studies.