This dissertation advances Frantz Fanon's Colonial Model (and his two-revolutions theory of decolonization) as a basis for predicting the evolution of specific changes in Nigerian legal code during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial eras. This study argues that Fanon's model of colonial oppression and its category of maintenance needs is highly predictive of the evolution from precolonial to postcolonial society in Africa. This claim is demonstrated through an analysis of changes in the legal code of a particular colonized nation during these eras. Changes in the rank order of severity of punishment and the correlative changes in the identification of seriousness of crime comprise the subject matter that this dissertation investigates. / Thus, speaking generically, the maintenance needs of oppression (MNOO) is a shorthand for two essentials that oppression/colonialism requires to preserve and prolong its life: a particular structural/institutional configuration, and a particular world view. / Content analysis was performed by the author of this dissertation on the legal data using these criteria as well as other relevant variables. The variables did not depart from Frantz Fanon's concepts of colonial oppression and its maintenance needs. The results indicated that colonialism is a subspecies of oppression, and that the severity of punishment changes in the Nigerian legal codes during the colonial era, i.e., changes from the personal injury and property crimes of the precolonial era to the political crimes (treason and treachery) of the colonial era, were geared to the maintenance needs of oppression. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3321. / Major Professor: Theodore G. Chiricos. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77519 |
| Contributors | Nwankwo, Peter Okoro., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 387 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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