The implementation of modern African Constitutions: Challenges and prospects

• Author: Charles Manga Fombad
• TeilnehmendeR: Fombad, Charles Manga,
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (335 p.)

In “The implementation of modern African Constitutions: challenges and prospects”, the authors try to identify obstacles to constitutional implementation in Africa and, on the basis of good practice, assess how this could be overcome. A single volume like this cannot unravel the complexity of the ca...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Problematising the issue of constitutional implementation in Africa
• Country case studies
• Constitutional implementation : the Nigerian experience
• Constitutional implementation : the Swaziland experience
• Three years into the implementation of the Zimbabwean constitution of 2013 : progress, challenges, prospects and lessons
• Constitutional implementation 20 years later : the Uganda report card
• The role of civil society organisations and the Chapter 9 institutions in implementing South Africa's constitution
• Women's rights and gender equality in the new Zimbabwean constitution : the role of civil society in implementation and compliance
• The use of specialised commissions for constitutional implementation : an insider view of the Kenyan CIC
• The use of specialised commissions for constitutional implementation : an outsider view of the Kenyan CIC
• Constitutional implementation in perspective : developing a sustainable normative constitutional implementation framework.