非洲法律文化现代化的思考

Reflections on Modernization of African Legal Culture

法律文化现代化,既是文化现代化的一个重要内容,也是社会现代化的组成部分。非洲的现代化与发展相互依存、相互包容。现代化是一个社会变革过程。与其他地区相比,非洲法律文化的现代化更显迫切,也是所有非洲国家都面临的问题。非洲法律文化的现代化变革包括习惯法文化的现代化和法律制度的现代化。非洲法律现代化的成败得失引起世人的深刻反思,如何发掘固有法的现代价值,如何理性地认识非洲的伊斯兰法治,如何实现非洲国家的法制统一等问题,是非洲法律文化现代化进程中亟待解决的现实问题。

The modernization of legal culture is the main content of cultural modernization, as well as the component of social modernization. Africa's modernization and development depend on and contain each other. Modernization is the course of social changes. Compared with other area, the modernization of legal culture, which includes the cultural modernization of customary laws and the modernization of legal system, is an urgent issue facing all African countries. In this process, how to reveal the modern value of the traditional law, how to reasoningly understand the Sharia issue in Africa, and how to accomplish the legal unification in African countries are real problems demanding prompt solutions.