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Strathmore Law Journal, Volume 8(1), November 2024

Beyond Formal Law: The Role of Ethics, Beliefs, and Values in Amplifying Action against Plastic Pollution in Africa

This special edition of the Strathmore Law Journal features papers from the conference “Beyond Formal Law: The Role of Ethics, Beliefs, and Values in Amplifying Action against Plastic Pollution in Africa,” held in November 2023 and co-organized by Strathmore University, UNEP, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law Program for Sub-Saharan Africa. Rooted in earlier discussions during the 4th International Parliamentarians Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief, the conference explored how informal norms such as ethics, beliefs, and cultural values can complement formal legal frameworks in addressing environmental challenges. The event brought together diverse stakeholders from across Africa and beyond, and its findings were shared at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution. This journal issue reflects the depth of those discussions, emphasizing a multidisciplinary and values-driven approach to environmental governance and calling for greater integration of informal norms in promoting sustainable and effective action against plastic pollution.

11 juin 2025
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Judicial Financial Independence in Africa

A Study of Eleven Sub-Saharan Countries

This book, published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa, explores the vital yet often underexamined issue of judicial financial independence as a cornerstone of judicial autonomy and the rule of law. Drawing on comparative analysis across eleven African countries, it examines the legal frameworks, budgetary structures, and institutional challenges that shape the judiciary's capacity to operate free from political and financial interference. Against the backdrop of colonial legacies and contemporary governance challenges, the book highlights how executive control over judicial finances continues to undermine the separation of powers and the effective delivery of justice. It offers concrete recommendations to enhance financial independence, bridging the gap between legal commitments and practical implementation. Intended as a resource for policymakers, legal professionals, and advocates, this publication underscores the imperative of protecting judicial autonomy as a foundation for democracy, good governance, and human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.

5 juin 2025
Titre unique

Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law

Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa

This fourth volume in the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series, like its predecessors, emerges from the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA). Consistent with SASCA’s mission, the volume centres on a topic of pressing constitutional importance: the pervasive challenge of corruption across Africa. Corruption, deeply embedded in the continent’s social, economic, and political spheres, is a core obstacle to constitutionalism and democratic governance. Although its detrimental impact has long been evident, serious attention to the issue has only been mobilized in recent years. Most anti-corruption efforts have been symbolic rather than substantive. The African Union’s 2018 declaration of the 'African Anti-Corruption Year' along with the annual designation of 11 July as ‘Africa Anti-Corruption Day’ reflects a growing recognition by African governments of the urgent need for action. The key objective of this volume is to draw attention to the problem of corruption and the need for remedial action. It seeks to foreground corruption as a critical threat to constitutional governance. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing efforts on accountability, and the promotion of meaningful reform. This volume serves as both a timely call to action and a foundational text for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to confront corruption in Africa. By placing corruption squarely on the constitutional agenda, it advances the broader struggle for governance rooted in integrity, accountability, and the rule of law.

2 mai 2025
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IMAGO / Xinhua

Wie der Verfassungsrat die Demokratie im Senegal rettete

Ein wegweisendes Urteil für Demokratie und Rechtsstaat in Westafrika

Die Demokratie im Senegal wurde in den letzten Jahren vermehrt durch Machtspiele gegen die Opposition, gewaltsame Demonstrationen und die strafrechtliche Verfolgung zahlreicher Oppositionspolitiker überschattet. Jüngst hat der senegalesische Verfassungsrat in einem wegweisenden Urteil die geplante Verschiebung der Präsidentschaftswahlen auf Dezember 2024 für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Damit hat er nicht nur den Senegal aus einer tiefen politischen Krise geholt, sondern im letzten Moment den Weg für eine verfassungsgemäße und demokratische Machtübergabe geebnet. Diese Machtübergabe fand nun am 2. April 2024 an den neu gewählten Präsidenten Bassirou Diomaye Faye statt.

29 mai 2024
Rapports pays

A Guide to Your Rights

Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in Ghana

The booklet introduces the reader to human rights, the history of the constitution of Ghana, the structure of the court system in Ghana and a simplified version of Chapter 5 of the Constitution-fundamental human rights and freedoms.

11 octobre 2023
Titre unique

KAS African Law Study Library

KAS African Law Study Library Volume 2 of 2023

KAS African Law Study Library is a journal which publishes articles written by young scholars from the African continent. The journal deals with practical aspects important for the development of the Rule of Law in an African context. The articles are the result of seminars and conferences organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Rule of Law Program for Sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hamann and African partner universities. KAS African Law Study Library thus creates a discussion forum for all lawyers interested in Africa and the diverse facets of Rule of Law in interaction with different historical, cultural, economic and political backgrounds. The journal addresses readers from all continents. Starting from Africa, it also wants to give thought-provoking impulse outside of Africa. KAS African Law Study Library is published quarterly and welcomes contributions in English and French. KAS African Law Study Library is available open access at www.nomos-elibrary.de See: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2363-6262-2023-2/kas-african-law-study-library-volume-10-2023-issue-2

4 octobre 2023
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KAS African Law Study Library

KAS African Law Study Library Volume 3 of 2023

KAS African Law Study Library is a journal which publishes articles written by young scholars from the African continent. The journal deals with practical aspects important for the development of the Rule of Law in an African context. The articles are the result of seminars and conferences organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Rule of Law Program for Sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hamann and African partner universities. KAS African Law Study Library thus creates a discussion forum for all lawyers interested in Africa and the diverse facets of Rule of Law in interaction with different historical, cultural, economic and political backgrounds. The journal addresses readers from all continents. Starting from Africa, it also wants to give thought-provoking impulse outside of Africa. KAS African Law Study Library is published quarterly and welcomes contributions in English and French. KAS African Law Study Library is available open access at www.nomos-elibrary.de See: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2363-6262-2023-3/kas-african-law-study-library-volume-10-2023-issue-3

4 octobre 2023
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Palastrevolution in Gabun

Ein Militärputsch als Garant für Demokratie und Rechtsstaat?

Das frankophone West- und Zentralafrika kommt nicht zur Ruhe. Nach fünf Militärputschen in den letzten drei Jahren (Mali, Tschad, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger) hat auch im bisher weitgehend stabilen Gabun das Militär Ende August 2023 die Macht übernommen. Reiht sich dieser Staatsstreich in Gabun in die jüngsten antidemokratischen Entwicklungen in Subsahara-Afrika ein oder lässt sich dieser Putsch in einem anderen Licht betrachten?

19 septembre 2023
Rapports pays

KAS African Law Study Library

Volume 1 of 2023

KAS African Law Study Library is a journal which publishes articles written by young scholars from the African continent. The journal deals with practical aspects important for the development of the Rule of Law in an African context. The articles are the result of seminars and conferences organized by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Rule of Law Program for Sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hamann and African partner universities. KAS African Law Study Library thus creates a discussion forum for all lawyers interested in Africa and the diverse facets of Rule of Law in interaction with different historical, cultural, economic and political backgrounds. The journal addresses readers from all continents. Starting from Africa, it also wants to give thought-provoking impulse outside of Africa. KAS African Law Study Library is published quarterly and welcomes contributions in English and French. KAS African Law Study Library is available open access at www.nomos-elibrary.de See: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2363-6262-2023-1/kas-african-law-study-library-volume-10-2023-issue-1

3 juillet 2023
Titre unique

CONSTITUTIONAL ADJUDICATION IN AFRICA

The volume is available here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/constitutional-adjudication-in-africa-9780198810216?lang=en&cc=gb

Since the 1990 wave of constitutional reforms in Africa, the role of constitutional courts or courts exercising the power to interpret and apply constitutions have become a critical aspect to the on-going process of constitutional construction, reconstruction, and maintenance. These developments appear, at least from the texts of the revised or new constitutions, to have resulted in fundamental changes in the nature and role of courts exercising jurisdiction in constitutional matters. The chapters in this second volume of the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series are the first to undertake a critical and comparative examination of the interplay of the diverse forms of constitutional review models on the continent. Comparative analysis is particularly important given the fact that over the last two decades, constitutional courts in Africa have been asked to decide a litany of hotly-contested and often sensitive disputes of a social, political, and economic nature. As the list of areas in which these courts have intervened has grown, so too have their powers, actual or potential. By identifying and examining the different models of constitutional review adopted, these chapters consider the extent to which these courts are contributing to enhancing constitutionalism and respect for the rule of law on the continent. The chapters show how the long-standing negative image of African courts is slowly changing. The courts have in responded in different ways to the variety of constraints, incentives, and opportunities that have been provided by the constitutional reforms of the last two decades to act as the bulwark against authoritarianism, and this provides a rich field for analysis, filling an important gap in the literature of contemporary comparative constitutional adjudication. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.

5 juin 2023
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