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    • Affirmative action in South Africa: Are we creating new casualties? 

      Adejumo, Oluyinka; Archibong, Uduak (Wiley, 2013)
      Affirmative action policies in South Africa and other countries have been designed to address inequity and discrimination, and to manage a wide range of diversity in all spheres of life, particularly after the end of ...

    • Africa 3: A continental network model to enable the African fourth industrial revolution 

      Ajayi, Olasupo O; Bagula, Antoine B.; Maluleke, Hloniphani C. (IEEE, 2020)
      It is widely recognised that collaboration can help fast-track the development of countries in Africa. Leveraging on the fourth industrial revolution, Africa can achieve accelerated development in health care services, ...

    • Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania 

      Becker, Heike (Routledge, 2016)
      South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter in an ethnographic study ...

    • Africa and the International Criminal Court 

      Ogunfolu, Adedokun; Assim, Usang Maria (Human Rights and Peace Centre, 2012)
      Since the establishment and functioning of the ICC in 2002, the work of the ICC has generated a lot of debate, criticisms and controversy. This is largely due to the perception that, as far as the prosecution of cases ...

    • Africa's land rush: rural livelihoods and agrarian change 

      Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; Tsikata, Dzodzi (James Currey, 2015)
      This book is 'the most historically grounded, lucid and nuanced understanding to date of the complex political economy of the contemporary rush for land in Africa' according to Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of of ...

    • Africa, prisons and COVID-19 

      Muntingh, Lukas (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      Africa’s prisons are a long-standing concern for rights defenders given the prevalence of rights abuses, overcrowding, poor conditions of detention and the extent to which the criminal justice system is used to target ...

    • The African children’s charter @ 30: A distinction without a difference? 

      Mezmur, Benyam Dawit (Brill, 2020)
      I would like to start with three recent concerning developments on children’s rights in Africa that the media has highlighted. First, in Somalia the draft Sexual Offences Bill that allowed child marriage has ruffled ...

    • The African children’s charter at 30: What implications for child and family law? 

      Sloth-Nielsen, Julia (Intersentia, 2021)
      This chapter examines the progress made and the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (hereinafter the Charter) in the areas of children's rights and ...

    • The African Coelecanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution 

      Christoffels, Alan; Hesse, Uljana; Gamieldien, Junaid; Panji, Sumir; Picone, Barbara; Van Heusden, Peter (Macmillan Publishers, 2013)
      The discovery of a living coelacanth specimen in 1938 was remarkable, as this lineage of lobe-finned fish was thought to have become extinct 70 million years ago. The modern coelacanth looks remarkably similar to many of ...

    • The African Commission on Human and People's Rights and the woman question 

      Durojaye, Ebenezer; Oluduro, O. (Springer, 2016)
      This paper proposes that in developing jurisprudence on women's rights, the African Commission will need to ask the woman question particularly the African woman question. The woman question requires a judicial or ...

    • The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the promotion and protection of refugees' rights 

      Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2009)
      African countries have been host to and have produced refugees for decades. These refugees have fled their countries for various reasons, including political and religious reasons. Many African countries are party to the ...

    • The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive rights 

      Victoria, Balogun; Ebenezer, Durojaye (African Human Rights Law Journal, 2011)
      The article examines the activities of the African Commission with regard to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. The article reviews the importance of applying human rights to sexual and ...

    • African Commission reaffirms protection of socio-economic rights in the African Charter 

      Chenwi, Lilian (ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2010)
      In July 2010, the ruling of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Commission) in relation to communications 279/03 and 296/05 was made public, the decision having been adopted in May 2009. The ...

    • The African Commission’s Guidelines on Pre-trial Detention: Implications for Angola and Mozambique 

      Lorizzo, Tina (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      On 8 May 2014, in Luanda (Angola), the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) adopted the Guidelines on the Use and Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody and Pre-trial Detention in Africa (hereafter the ...

    • African governments must build on Covid-19 responses to advance gender equality 

      Bello, Kéfilath; George, Asha; De Jong, Michelle (NLM (Medline), 2023)
      Gender inequality remains a major threat to development in Africa, with millions of women in the continent not reaching their full potential.1 The covid-19 pandemic and related quarantine and lockdown measures exacerbated ...

    • African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO): A disciplinary open archive 

      Mohamed, Shehaamah; Fullard, Allison (2009-10-14)
      African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) is an international disciplinary repository for research texts that focus on the practice and development of higher education in Africa. Distributed researchers upload their ...

    • African history in context: Toward a praxis of radical education 

      Benson, Koni; Gamedze, Asher; Koranteng, Akosua (Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
      This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high ...

    • The African intellectuals’ project 

      Sesanti, Simphiwe (UNISA Press, 2020)
      Soon after taking the position of editor of IJARS at the beginning of 2019, I was contacted by the dean of Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies (CGS), Prof. Lindiwe Zungu, who informed me that the university’s principal ...

    • African Migrants, Xenophobia and Urban Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa 

      Tevera, Daniel (University of the Western Cape, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2013)
      The urban space in South Africa is increasingly becoming a troubled terrain of xenophobic violence. In recent years xenophobia has emerged as one of the major contributing factors to urban violence in several African ...

    • African peacekeeping and African integration: Current challenges 

      Gottschalk, Keith (RUDN University, 2020)
      Peacekeeping and economic union are the two most important dimensions of African integration. The first section of this article aims to analyse some current challenges to African peacekeeping, peacemaking, and ...