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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | Judiciary Watch report: readings on the rule of law in Africa |
Editor: | Ambani, J. Osogo |
Year: | 2008 |
Volume: | 7 |
Pages: | 315 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Judiciary Watch series |
City of publisher: | Nairobi |
Publisher: | Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists |
ISBN: | 9966958304 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya |
Subjects: | rule of law corruption violence social and economic rights civil society |
Abstract: | Notwithstanding the obtaining vicissitudes, African States do have constitutional dispensations in line with the rule of law. There is an attempt to observe constitutionalism, together with related principles such as the separation of powers and the rule of law. The introductory chapter traces the concept of the rule of law to the Westminster constitutional set-up before relating it to Africa's context. It provides the conceptual framework within which the succeeding chapters are anchored. These discuss various aspects of the African State, in particular the State in Kenya, through the prism of the doctrine of the rule of law: judicial independence, corruption, gender equality and the socioeconomic rights discourse, violence and anarchy, fiscal and economic policy, as well as the role of civil society organizations in democracy. Contributors: Ibrahim Kabole Alubala, J. Osogo Ambani, Naomi Barasa, Edwin Bikundo, Joseph B. Diescho, Samuel M. Kimeu, Okalle Makanda, Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, A.M. Mumbi, Githii Mweru, Leon Wessels. [ASC Leiden abstract] |