scholarly journals The Portable Coup: The Jurisprudence of ‘Revolution’ in Uganda and Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Civilian Regimes ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
British Colonies

In the years after independence, former British colonies in eastern and southern Africa struggled to fill the ranks of their judiciaries with African judges. Beginning in the mid-1960s, states including Uganda, Tanzania, and Botswana solved this problem by retaining judges from the Caribbean and West Africa, especially Nigeria. In this same period, a wave of coups brought many independent states under the rule of their militaries (or authoritarian civilian regimes). Foreign judges who had been appointed in the name of pan-African cooperation were tasked with interpreting the laws that soldiers imposed, and assessing the legitimacy of regimes born of coups. The decisions they rendered usually accommodated authoritarianism, but they could also be turned against it. To understand how colonial law and postcolonial solidarities shaped Africa's military dictatorships, this article focuses on one judge, Sir Egbert Udo Udoma of Nigeria, who served as Uganda's first African chief justice and was an influential member of the Nigerian Supreme Court. Udoma and other judges like him traversed the continent in the name of African cooperation, making a new body of jurisprudence as they did so. Their rulings were portable, and they came to underpin military rule in many states, both in Africa and in the wider Commonwealth.

A note on the parasitisation of the pupa of Glossina palpalis (R.-D.) by Anastatus Motsch. sp. (Hym., Eupelmidae)

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. T. Baldry
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Tsetse Flies ◽  
Large Hole ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
First Time ◽  
Glossina Palpalis

Anastatus sp. (Eupelmidae) is recorded for the first time parasitising a puparium of Glossina palpalis (R.-D.) in West Africa. Hitherto, the only records of Eupelmids parasitising tsetse flies have been of A. viridiceps Wtstn. and Eupelmella tarsata (Wtstn.) from G. morsitans Westw. in eastern and southern Africa. The parasite emerged through a large hole anterior to the polypneustic lobes. Parasitic Eupelmids do not normally utilise tsetse flies as hosts.

Whitehall, the French Community and the Year of Africa: negotiating post-independence diplomacy in West Africa

2013 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
Mélanie Torrent
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The Gambia ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Community Initiative ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
Colonial Office

Melanie Torrent highlights the perspective of British officials, who had to make sense of a process regarded as entirely different from their own experiences. The British impression was that, while they had efficiently planned their own retreat over a longer period, and guaranteed the survival of the Commonwealth, this stood in sharp contrast with the imperfections and the lack of vision inherent in the short-lived French ‘Community’ initiative (1958) from Paris. Torrent holds that the British believed their pattern of decolonization produced very different, more challenging but overall more equal and better relations between the former metropole and the newly independent African countries. There never was any suggestion to regard French policies as a model. Even so, according to Torrent’s interpretation, the French retreat from its former colonies internally put pressure on British officials, given that the Colonial Office was still in charge of affairs in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, and that the conflict-ridden situation in large parts of the territories of Eastern and Southern Africa was still unresolved.

African Smoking and Pipes

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Edward Philips
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Water Pipes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa

This article first explains the importance of the history of smoking pipes for other historical questions, especially in West Africa, where pipe styles are used to date archaeological levels. A survey of the major theories about African smoking and pipes is presented. This is followed by a review of the published archaeological literature pertaining to smoking pipes found at various sites from around the continent. The various controversies surrounding African smoking customs are then looked at in the light of the available evidence. The most likely hypothesis is that cannabis was smoked in water pipes in eastern and southern Africa before the introduction of tobacco. Further research is called for to prove or disprove this hypothesis. Tobacco is shown to have been introduced to West Africa from eastern North America, most likely by the French coming to Senegambia, though possibly by Moroccans coming to Timbuktu.

The Region-Sensitive Effect of Globalization on HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa: The Dual Role of Education

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Stroeken ◽  
Cathy Abbo ◽  
Petra De Koker ◽  
Kristien Michielsen ◽  
Pieter Remes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
East Africa ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Refugee Protection

This introductory chapter begins by presenting the book’s structure in section A. Section B then delineates the book’s contours, outlining four aspects of refugee protection in Africa that are not addressed. Section C provides context, with a contemporary overview of the state of refugee protection in Africa. It also looks at the major aspects of the refugee situations in each of Africa’s principal geographic sub-regions: East Africa (including the Horn of Africa), Central Africa and the Great Lakes, West Africa, Southern Africa, and North Africa. Section D then concludes with an outline of the theoretical approach to regime relationships employed throughout the book.

The Charter of the Organization of African Unity

1965 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. O. Elias
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
African Unity ◽  
United Arab Republic ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
Independent States

Early in 1961, the President of Liberia, the Prime Minister of Nigeria, and the Prime Minister of Sierra Leone decided to act as joint sponsors of a conference of the leaders of all the independent African states for the purpose of promoting inter-African co-operation. Liberia, as the the oldest of the three sponsoring states, graciously offered to play host. The idea was that all the African states that were independent at that time were ipso facto eligible for membership of the conference. This conference would include the small group of independent African states, usually referred to as the Casablanca bloc, consisting of the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Mali and Morocco. This group had signed the Casablanca Charter which was a brief document setting out the aims and purposes of the organization, among which were schemes of economic and social co-operation and the establishment of an African High Command for the purpose of self-defense of its members as well as for that of ridding the continent of Africa of all forms of colonialism. When, therefore, the decision was taken by the three sponsoring states to call a Pan-African conference, it was envisaged that all the then independent states in Africa, including the so-called Casablanca bloc states, would attend and take a full part in its deliberations.

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