Post by Onyango Oloo on Mar 6, 2018 15:03:52 GMT 3
A Book Review by Onyango Oloo of: Democracy, Consititutionalism and Politics in Africa-Historical Contexts, Developments and Dilemmas
Series Editor, Professor Eunice Sahle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
299 Pages; 2017.
I just received a book that I and two other people collaborated on way back in 2008. Other Kenyan contributors inlude Dr. Willy Mutunga, the former Chief Justice and President of Supreme Court and Professor Anyang Nyongo, currently Kisumu Governor. Despite her name, Prof. Eunice Sahle is actually an old Kirinyaga born comptriot that I met in Toronto in the 1990s.
The well produced hard cover volume in front of me is divided into nine chapters.
These consist of an Introduction by Professor Sahlefollowed by Africa's "Consitutionalism Revival": False Start or New Dawn? by H. Kwasi Prempeh, a Ghanain legal scholar whose scholarship focuses on the Prospects and Challenges of Building democracracy and Constitutionalism in Africa's Post Authoritarian States; the third chapter by Charles Manga Fombad, a Professor of Law who heads the African Constitutional Law Unit at the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the University of Pretoria dealing with the question of Some Perspectives on Durability and Change Under Modern African Constitutions which leads to Eunice Sahle's piece, Promoting Gender Equality in the Era of Democracy and Constitutionalism in Southern Africa; which segues into Dr. Willy Mutunga's Dressing and Undressing the Kenyan Judiciary: Reflecting on the History and Politics of Judicial Attire and Address;Chapter Six sees Jason Warner, a PhD and assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at US Military Academy, West Point grappling with the topic, The African Union and Article(h),Understanding Changing Norms of Sovereignty and Interventions in Africa Through an Ingtegrated Levels of Analysis approach.
Professor Anyang Nyongo, currently the Governor of Kisumu and a distinguished political scientist, weighs in with Electoral Democracy and Election Coalitions in Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire and Zimbabwe while the veteran Congolese academic,Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, currently a professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies writes on the topic of Major Challenges of Governance in Africa Today.
Chapter Nine, the final one has Anders Sjogren a senior researcher with the Nordic Africa Institute in Upssala Sweden, partnering with Kenyan activist Onyango Oloo and Shailja Patel, feminist and poet examine the role of Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice to look into the 2008 post election violence.
Folks, it is at this point that I have to dissapoint my eager readers who were pining for more.
You see, even though the book came out last year, DHL only delivered to me here in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal on Monday, May 6,2017.
I therefore feel it would be completely unethical to deign to "review" such an imporant publication that I have looked at for less than twenty four hours.
My advice is to go out there and purchase the bpok. I have provided all the details. Palgrave Macmillian is not some Mickey Mouse outfit, OK?
Series Editor, Professor Eunice Sahle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
299 Pages; 2017.
I just received a book that I and two other people collaborated on way back in 2008. Other Kenyan contributors inlude Dr. Willy Mutunga, the former Chief Justice and President of Supreme Court and Professor Anyang Nyongo, currently Kisumu Governor. Despite her name, Prof. Eunice Sahle is actually an old Kirinyaga born comptriot that I met in Toronto in the 1990s.
The well produced hard cover volume in front of me is divided into nine chapters.
These consist of an Introduction by Professor Sahlefollowed by Africa's "Consitutionalism Revival": False Start or New Dawn? by H. Kwasi Prempeh, a Ghanain legal scholar whose scholarship focuses on the Prospects and Challenges of Building democracracy and Constitutionalism in Africa's Post Authoritarian States; the third chapter by Charles Manga Fombad, a Professor of Law who heads the African Constitutional Law Unit at the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the University of Pretoria dealing with the question of Some Perspectives on Durability and Change Under Modern African Constitutions which leads to Eunice Sahle's piece, Promoting Gender Equality in the Era of Democracy and Constitutionalism in Southern Africa; which segues into Dr. Willy Mutunga's Dressing and Undressing the Kenyan Judiciary: Reflecting on the History and Politics of Judicial Attire and Address;Chapter Six sees Jason Warner, a PhD and assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at US Military Academy, West Point grappling with the topic, The African Union and Article(h),Understanding Changing Norms of Sovereignty and Interventions in Africa Through an Ingtegrated Levels of Analysis approach.
Professor Anyang Nyongo, currently the Governor of Kisumu and a distinguished political scientist, weighs in with Electoral Democracy and Election Coalitions in Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire and Zimbabwe while the veteran Congolese academic,Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, currently a professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies writes on the topic of Major Challenges of Governance in Africa Today.
Chapter Nine, the final one has Anders Sjogren a senior researcher with the Nordic Africa Institute in Upssala Sweden, partnering with Kenyan activist Onyango Oloo and Shailja Patel, feminist and poet examine the role of Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice to look into the 2008 post election violence.
Folks, it is at this point that I have to dissapoint my eager readers who were pining for more.
You see, even though the book came out last year, DHL only delivered to me here in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal on Monday, May 6,2017.
I therefore feel it would be completely unethical to deign to "review" such an imporant publication that I have looked at for less than twenty four hours.
My advice is to go out there and purchase the bpok. I have provided all the details. Palgrave Macmillian is not some Mickey Mouse outfit, OK?