The implementation of modern African Constitutions: Challenges and prospects

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910688577603321
• Autore: Fombad Charles Manga
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (335 p.)
• Soggetti: Constitutional law - Africa; Constitutional history - Africa; Constitutional history; Constitutional law; Constitutions; Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 causes and effects of, and solutions to, the problem of non-implementation of constitutions in Africa: the subject is far too intricate. Nevertheless, this study, represents a first attempt to draw attention to the issue, and hopes to open a serious debate about it and pave the way for making this issue an integral consideration in constitution-building in the future. The variety of perspectives provided in analysing the challenges to constitution-implementation in this volume should make it to appeal to academics, practitioners, policy makers and postgraduate research students interested in the intricacies of comparative African constitutional law.