Promoting Efficiency in Jurisprudence and Constitutional Development in Africa

ISBN-13: 9783031138133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 337 str.

Azubike Onuora-Oguno

Opis

This book eulogises a personality that has constructed a formidable scholarly and personal legacy that future generations of legal practitioners and socio-legal scholars in Africa should look to for guidance and inspiration. Divided into three parts, the book deals with a longstanding legal practice and scholarship on the role of international law and institutions. Additionally, the book discussed roles of an African scholar and practitioner to advance socio-economic and cultural rights across the continent, through contextualised, progressive adjudication and from a gendered perspective. Finally, the book examined the importance of early-childhood education and legal education alike, the role of the courts in redressing these concerns and the need for greater inclusion of Afro and queer-sensitive pedagogies and perspectives. Contributors to the book address the role of schools in redressing systemic marginalisation—including stigmatisation based on disability—and efforts to translate their rights as prescribed in national constitutions and international legal instruments. The methodology encompasses a TWAIL approach and the call to revisit orthodox approaches to legal scholarship. 

Spis treści

1. Reflection on the Development of Jurisprudence Teaching and Practice in a Silver State: Thoughts and Musing of Prof. Wahab Egbewole, SAN (Olatoke, J.O & Onuora-Oguno A.C)

2. ECOWAS Court and Emerging Community Legal Order in West Africa (Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi)

3. Making a Case for the Implementation of the African Union Model Law For the Implementation of the Kampala Convention in Nigeria (Akintayo Akinola)

4. COVID-19 and the Implementation of Aspiration 1 of the African Union's Agenda 2063: The Case of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini (Linda Mushoriwa & Esther Njieassam)

5. "Bastions of Hope": The Democratic Potential of a Willing Judiciary in Progressive Socio-Economic Rights Litigation in South African and Nigeria (Omowamiwa Kolawole & Dee Smythe)

6. Gender Mainstreaming in Post Conflict Reconstruction in North East, Nigeria (Olanike Adelakun)

7. Islamic Law Perspective on Emerging Issues from Legal Frameworks on Domestic Violence in Nigeria (Imam Tamim)

8. The Role of Nigeria Courts in Protesting Women and Children Against Harmful Traditional Practices (Balarabe H & Amana Yusuf)

9. Protecting the Maginalised Child in Nigeria-Social Protection of Children with Albinism in NIgerian Schools Examined (Onuora-Oguno Azubike C & Onuora-Oguno Nnamdi C)

10. Early Child Education and Care: A Cradle for Inclusion in Nigeria? (Ngozi Chuma Umeh)

11. Inclusion of Disabilities Related Courses in The Nigerian Law Schools' Curriculum (Barakat Adebisi Raji, Abdulrazaq Owolabi Abduladir & Ibrahim Akeem Owolabi)

12. Human Rights and Climate Change Impacts in Africa: A New Factor in African Union Policymaking (Michael Addaney)

13. The Role of the Courts in Mapping out Inclusive Education (Serges Djoyou Kamga)

14. Decolonialising the Nigerian Law Classroom: Analytic Diary on Indigenous Storytelling at Niger Delta University (David Nnanna & Chukwukadibia Ikpo)

15. Charting a New Course in Sexual Violence Prohibition and Protection in Nigeria: A Need to Reappraise Public Law Jurisprudence in NIgeria? (Chianaraekpere Ike & Azubike Onuora-Oguno)

O autorze

Azubike Chinwuba Onuora-Oguno is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Blurb

“This is an important book. We live in a now totally interdependent world. To develop a viable world order demands that its nations work together to address, and learn from each other how best to address, the common problems they face. Unfortunately, many in the West lack knowledge about and consequently have a distorted view of life in Africa. This collection of essays from leading scholars throughout the continent helps to rectify this imbalance. The essays discuss, from an African perspective, issues that pervade the world: climate change, the Covid virus, internal displacement, socio-economic and human rights. The central theme is the need to develop political and legal institutions and practices to address these issues. so as to build societies and a world order that benefit all people. We can all benefit from reading this book.”

—Thomas Kleven, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, USA

This book eulogises a personality that has constructed a formidable scholarly and personal legacy that future generations of legal practitioners and socio-legal scholars in Africa should look to for guidance and inspiration. Divided into three parts, the book deals with a longstanding legal practice and scholarship on the role of international law and institutions. Additionally, the book discussed roles of an African scholar and practitioner to advance socio-economic and cultural rights across the continent, through contextualised, progressive adjudication and from a gendered perspective. Finally, the book examined the importance of early-childhood education and legal education alike, the role of the courts in redressing these concerns and the need for greater inclusion of Afro and queer-sensitive pedagogies and perspectives. Contributors to the book address the role of schools in redressing systemic marginalisation—including stigmatisation based on disability—and efforts to translate their rights as prescribed in national constitutions and international legal instruments. The methodology encompasses a TWAIL approach and the call to revisit orthodox approaches to legal scholarship.

Azubike Chinwuba Onuora-Oguno is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.