Restorative justice for promoting reconciliation

Abstract

The book review by Mammo Muchie examines how restorative justice for promoting reconciliation, peace and conflict resolution should be brought back from Africa’s rich tradition. The imitation of punitive justice is to dwell in coloniality, when the opportunity exists for Africa to mine its own rich values from Ma’at, Ubuntu and other critical and very relevant legal ideas to build an original and indigenous justice system. The Ethiopianism philosophy that has come since the 17th century is very powerful to re-design the legal and justice system along with all the economic and political changes driven by the decolonising creative imagination.