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Browsing by UP Author "Fombad, Charles Manga"
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Kamga, Serges Djoyou; Fombad, Charles Manga (Africa Institute of South Africa, 2017-12)This article aims to assess the possible options and prospects for actualising the right to development (RTD) in Africa. Mindful of the controversy surrounding the legal status of the RTD, the article starts by problematising ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Southern African Society of Legal Historians, 2011)A constitutional bill of rights in many respects signals a country’s commitment to human rights protection. This paper examines, from a historical comparative perspective, the bills of rights in a number of selected African ...
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Abdulrauf, Lukman Adebisi; Fombad, Charles Manga (Routledge, 2016-06)It is now widely recognised that the unregulated processing of personal information has had a significant impact on key human rights like privacy, dignity, integrity, personality and autonomy. However, while other regions ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Sage, 2014)Debates and discussions about the African renaissance and the Africanisation of universities have raged for decades. The goal of developing an emancipatory Afrocentric system that frees African education from the continuous ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga; Nwauche, E. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)A fundamental tenet of modern constitutionalism is that nobody, regardless of his status is above the law. Extensive powers conferred on African presidents in the independence constitutions, reinforced by ineffective ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Routledge, 2014)The last decade has seen the judiciary’s legitimacy come under increasing scrutiny as more and more sensitive and politically charged battles are fought in the courts. These have not only placed constitutional adjudicators ...
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Manyatera, Gift; Fombad, Charles Manga (Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, UNISA, 2013)The political turmoil that Zimbabwe has gone through in the last two decades has affected most of its institutions, especially the judiciary. It is thus no surprise that it was one of the targets for reform during the last ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Routledge, 2021)One of Africa’s major challenges in the last three decades has been the need to restore confidence in the judiciary. During the long years of dictatorial rule, judges were stripped of their independence and appointed or ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga; Abdulrauf, Lukman Adebisi (Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)The need to act swiftly in times of emergency gives governments a reason to exercise emergency powers. This is a legally valid and accepted practice in modern democracies. Post-independence African constitutions contained ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (LexisNexis, 2010)Most good governance, accountability and constitutionalism indicators suggest that, whilst African countries have made considerable strides since the tidal wave of democratisation and liberalisation reached the African ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)Constitution-building is a delicate and intricate process which requires ample reflection and careful choices. African constitution-builders and politicians have since the beginning of the 1990s embarked on a process of ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Cambridge University Press, 2018-06)The prominent place given to decentralization in the design of post-1990 African constitutions has been likened to a silent revolution. This is not surprising, for sharing power has been anathema to post-independence African ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Routledge, 2018)The issue of constitutional literacy has attracted very little attention in scholarship on constitutionalism in Africa. This is not surprising, because the early constitutions were virtually imposed by the departing colonial ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga; University of Pretoria. Dept. of Public Law (University of Pretoria, 2011-07-29)The objective of this paper will be to consider, in the light of the challenges to constitutionalism that have emerged since the third generation of constitutions were adopted in the 1990s, what needs to be done to sustain ...
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Djoyou Kamga, Serges Alain; Fombad, Charles Manga (Cambridge University Press, 2013)This article critically examines the jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Commission) on the right to development (RTD). Notwithstanding the controversy over the RTD, it is ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Sweet and Maxwell, 2022-06)It had been assumed that the advances in digital information technology and its increasing availability to ordinary Africans would facilitate broader public participation in decision-making and provide ordinary citizens ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Edinburgh University Press, 2017-02)Until fairly recently, the issue of constitutional implementation has surprisingly received little attention both in constitutional theory and practice. Yet it is a crucial aspect of constitutional effectiveness. Without ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2020)No abstract available.
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Fombad, Charles Manga; Kibet, Eric (Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)Serious efforts to entrench the rule of law in Africa came with the socalled third wave of democratisation in the 1990s. This democratic revival raised hopes of a new era of governance guided by the basic principles of ...
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Fombad, Charles Manga (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-03)It is generally recognised that election management bodies (EMBs) constitute one of the most important institutions needed to sustain Africa‟s fledgling transition to democratic and constitutional governance. They are ...
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