Access to information in Africa : law, culture and practice / / edited by Fatima Diallo, Richard Calland.
For a long time, Africa has 'lagged' behind global advances in transparency, but there are now significant developments on the continent. In a ground-breaking book, Access to Information in Africa brings together for the first time a collection of African academics and practitioners to con...
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| Superior document: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 27 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
v. 27. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Notes: | "The ATI Committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers ... The papers presented in this book are a compilation of the ideas discussed within the group and elsewhere--and represent its research activities as a group or conducted by its individual members through other institutional contexts"--Acknowledgements. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Fatima Diallo and Richard Calland
- Introduction: Navigating the Transparency Landscape in Africa / Richard Calland and Fatima Diallo
- The Right of Access to Information: The State of the Art and the Emerging Theory of Change / Richard Calland
- The Problem of Access to Information in African Jurisdictions: Constitutionalism, Citizenship, and Human Rights Discourse / Colin Darch
- Transparency and Power Relations: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on the Right of Access to Information / Fatima Diallo
- Constitutional Domestication of the Right of Access to Information in Africa: Retrospect and Prospects / Fola Adeleke
- Statistics, Indicators and Access to Information in African Countries / Colin Darch
- The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and Corruption in Nigeria: Rethinking the Links between Transparency and Accountability / Uwafiokun Idemudia
- Towards Realizing the Right of Access to Internet-Based Information in Africa / Fola Adeleke and Matilda Lasseko Phooko
- An Actionable Constitutional Right of ATI: The Case of Southern Africa / Matilda Lasseko Phooko
- The Uganda Freedom of Information Campaign: Stuck in the Mud? / Dan Ngabirano
- Realizing the Right of Access to Information in Kenya: What Should Stakeholders Be on the Lookout for? / Edwin Abuya
- The Right to Information in Burkina Faso: An Unfinished Quest / Abdoul Karim Sango
- Access to Information and Transparency: Opportunities and Challenges for Nigeria’s FOI Act 2011 / Morayo Adebayo and Akinyinka Akinyoade
- List of Contributors / Fatima Diallo and Richard Calland
- Index / Fatima Diallo and Richard Calland.