A Theory of African Constitutionalism
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Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism;
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 8 July 2021
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780192893925 |
ISBN10: | 01928939211 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 272 pages |
Size: | 242x165x20 mm |
Weight: | 1 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
Utilizing detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa, this title traces African constitutionalism from precolonial times to the present. The volume offers a new framework for understanding African constitutionalism and a range of practical proposals for its future development.
Long description:
A Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms. By locating constitutional studies in Africa within the experiences, interactions, and contestations of power and governance beginning in precolonial times, the book presents the development and transformation of African constitutional systems across time and place, along with the attendant constitutional designs and practices ranging from the nature and operation of the African state to its vertical and horizontal government structures, to its constitutional rights regime. This title offers both a theoretically and comparatively rich, historically and contextually informed, and temporally and spatially extensive account of the nature, travails, and incremental successes of African constitutionalism with detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa. A Theory of African Constitutionalism provides scholars, policymakers, governments, and constitution builders in Africa and beyond with new insights for reimagining the purpose, substance, and scope of constitutions and constitutionalism.
Above all, for anybody seriously interested in a deeper understanding of the development, character, and predicaments of African constitutionalism, this book is not only essential but indispensable reading.
Above all, for anybody seriously interested in a deeper understanding of the development, character, and predicaments of African constitutionalism, this book is not only essential but indispensable reading.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Legal Syncretism as a Theoretical Framework for African Constitutionalism
The Transformation of African Constitutionalism
The Design and Practice of African Constitutionalism
Federalism
The Executive
Women's Constitutional Rights
The Future of African Constitutional Design and Practice
Conclusion
Legal Syncretism as a Theoretical Framework for African Constitutionalism
The Transformation of African Constitutionalism
The Design and Practice of African Constitutionalism
Federalism
The Executive
Women's Constitutional Rights
The Future of African Constitutional Design and Practice
Conclusion