Comparative Constitutional Law in Africa

Edited by Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor, University of Chicago Law School and Research Associate, American Bar Foundation, US and Adem Kassie Abebe, Senior Advisor, Constitution-Building Programme, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, The Hague, the Netherlands and Extraordinary Lecturer, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Contents:

1 Introduction to comparative constitutional law in Africa 1
Adem Abebe, Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg

PART I CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN, AMENDMENT,
AND INTERPRETATION
2 Public participation, representative elites and technocrats
in constitution-making processes: Nigeria, Uganda, South
Africa and Kenya 16
Abrak Saati
3 Constitutional amendment and term limit evasion in Africa 40
Tom Ginsburg, Adem Abebe, and Rosalind Dixon
4 Constitutional review in Africa 58
Markus Böckenförde
5 Political party constitutionalisation in Africa: trends and
prospects for deepening constitutionalism 110
Charles Fombad

PART II CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE:
DEMOCRATIZATION AND TAMING THE EXECUTIVE
6 Democratic constitutional transitions in sub-Saharan Africa 138
Duncan M. Okubasu
7 Federalism, devolution and territorially based cleavages in Africa 158
Assefa Fiseha
8 Regulating the exercise of public power through law:
a first glance at comparative administrative law/justice in Africa 217
Hugh Corder
9 Constitutional responses to corruption in Africa 244
Selemani Kinyunyu

PART III CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
10 Constitutions, freedom of expression, internet shutdowns,
social media and defamation laws in Africa 269
Mugambi Laibuta
11 Constitutional protection of socio-economic rights in Africa 293
Magnus Killander
12 Constitutional regulation of religion in Africa 313
Johan D. van der Vyver
13 Traditional kingdoms and modern constitutions:
parochialism, patriarchy, and despotism vs. indigenous
safeguards against absolutism 329
Jan Erk

PART IV CONSTITUTIONS AND SUPRANATIONAL LAW
14 Africanization of constitutional law 362
Micha Wiebusch

Index