The implementation of modern African constitutions
Subtitle: challenges and prospects
By: Charles Manga Fombad (editor)
Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781920538651
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Constitutional law; Constitutional history; Constitutions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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