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THE PEOPLES’ LAW: TOWARD A NEW COMMON LAW FOR AFRICANS
(Journal of the Commonwealth Magistrates, 2021-04)Law on the African continent draws from both indigenous, customary sources and from the legal norms and conventions brought to the continent by outsiders, principally colonial settlers. Historically however, customary ... -
The sexual minority rights conundrum in Africa: Contextualising the debate following the Coalition of African Lesbians’ application for observer status before the African Commission
(STRATHMORE LAW JOURNAL, 2016-08)Although the African human rights legal system boasts of many treaties,1 the most relevant in the context of sexual minority rights2 is the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter),3 which agreement ...