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  • Islamic Law as Customary Law: The Changing Perspective in Nigeria

  • AA Oba
  • Journal:
    International & Comparative Law Quarterly / Volume 51 / Issue 4 / October 2002
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 January 2008, pp. 817-850
    Print publication:
    October 2002

  • Pluralism is a main feature of Nigeria as a country. There is ethnic pluralism.1 The pre-colonial Nigeria comprised of over 250 nation states embracing over 500 ethnic and linguistic groups.2 These ethnic groups spread across the three main geographical units in the country, namely, the north, the west, and the east. The north was dominated by the Hausa-Fulani and the Kanuri peoples, the west by the Yoruba speaking tribes, and the east by the Igbos.