Edited by Charles M. Fombad

2016
ISBN:  978-1-920538-65-1

ICLA contribution:  Edited by Charles M. Fombad

 About the publication

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.

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Table of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Contributors
PART 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction
   Charles M. Fombad
2. Problematising the Issue of Constitutional Implementation in Africa
   Charles M. Fombad
   
   PART 2 COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
3. Constitutional Implementation: The Nigerian Experience
   Nathaniel A Inegbedion
4. Constitutional Implementation: The Swaziland Experience
   Thulani R. Maseko and Lukman Abdulrauf
5. Three Years into the Implementation of the Zimbabwean Constitution of 2013: Progress, Challenges, Prospects and Lessons
   Tinashe Chigwata
6. Constitutional Implementation 20 Years Later: The Uganda Report Card
   Donald Rukare
   
   PART 3 THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
7. The Role of Civil Society Organisations and the Chapter 9 Institutions in Implementing South Africa’s Constitution
   Wandisa Phama and Palesa Madi
8. Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in the New Zimbabwean Constitution: The Role of Civil Society in Implementation and Compliance
   Makanatsa Makonese
   
   PART 4 THE USE OF SPECIALISED CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSIONS
9. The Use of Specialised Commissions for Constitutional Implementation: An Insider View of the Kenyan CIC
   Kamotho Waiganjo
10. The Use of Specialised Commissions for Constitutional Implementation: An Outsider View of the Kenyan CIC
    Jane R. Serwanga
    
    PART 5 GENERAL CONCLUSION
11. Constitutional Implementation in Perspective: Developing a Sustainable Normative Constitutional Implementation Framework
    Charles M. Fombad