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Subject(s)

• Constitutional law—Africa [Browse]
• Democracy—Africa [Browse]

Editor

• Fombad, Charles Manga [Browse]
• Steytler, N. C. [Browse]

Series

• Stellenbosch handbooks in African constitutional law. [More in this series]
• Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law Series

Summary note

This book in the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series provides a critical analysis of existing paradigms, concepts, and normative ideologies of modern African constitutional identity.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Contents
• Table of Cases
• Table of Legislation
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Constitutional Identity
• Africa's Chequered Journey to Constitutional Democracy
• Introduction: In Search of Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
• Part 1: Overview of Concepts and Key Issues, Colonial and Traditional Constitutional Identities, and Path Dependency
• 1. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa: Concepts and Key Issues
• 2. Constitutional Checks and Balances in Traditional Africa
• 3. Constitutional Identity and Traditional Authority in the Post-colony
• 4. The Struggle for Constitutional Identity in Francophone Africa
• 5. Who Are 'We, the People'? Pluralist Constitutional Identity after Democratic Transitions in African and European Countries
• Part 2: Case Studies
• 6. A Century of South African Constitutional Identities
• 7. Constitutional Identity and Disruption in Contemporary Ethiopia
• 8. Rooting Constitutional Identity in African Countries without Pre-colonial Institutional Traditions but with National Values: The Cape Verdean Experience and the Role of the Constitutional Court
• 9. Cameroon and the Crisis of Constitutional Identity: Is Anglophone Identity Compatible with a Cameroonian Constitutional Identity?
• 10. Taking Power from the People: Shifting Constitutional Identity in Egypt
• Part 3: Conclusion
• 11. Fostering a Sense of Constitutional Identity amid the Travails of African Constitutionalism
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-890633-1
• 0-19-890631-5
• 0-19-890632-3

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