(2024) 5 TWAIL Review 98-119
ISSN 2563-6693
Published under a Creative Commons licence. 

In her 2023 text, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility, Folúkẹ́ Adébísí explores what it means to transcend colonial logics in the study, practice, and teaching of law. She implores legal academics to participate in the project of decolonization and decoloniality through careful examination of the concepts, theories, and categories that organize the discipline of Law. This review essay engages with the project of the text by exploring the colonial logics that inform the separating of colonial experiences into “settler” and “non-settler” categories. In particular, this paper argues that Nigeria, which is traditionally classed as a “non-settler” state, should be understood as operating within a settler-colonial logic, and that its Indigenous peoples should be understood as similarly situated to Indigenous peoples in traditional settler-states.