Separation of powers in African constitutionalism / edited by Charles M. Fombad.
2016
KQC548 .S47 2016 (Map It)
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Title
Separation of powers in African constitutionalism / edited by Charles M. Fombad.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
KQC548 .S47 2016
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780198759799 (hbk.)
0198759797 (hbk.)
0198759797 (hbk.)
Description
xxiv, 415 pages ; 26 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)922919418
Note
"Table of cases": pages xi-xvi.
"Table of legislation": pages xvii-xxiv.
"Table of legislation": pages xvii-xxiv.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law
v
Preface
vii
Table of Cases
xi
Table of Legislation
xvii
List of Abbreviations
xxv
List of Contributors
xxvii
Introduction / Charles M. Fombad
1
pt. I
OVERVIEW
1.
Evolution of Modern African Constitutions: A Retrospective Perspective / Charles M. Fombad
13
2.
Overview of Separation of Powers under Modern African Constitutions / Charles M. Fombad
58
pt. II
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEGISLATURE AND THE EXECUTIVE
3.
Parliamentary Sovereignty or Presidential Imperialism? The Difficulties in Identifying the Source of Constitutional Power from the Interaction Between Legislatures and Executives in Anglophone Africa / Francois Venter
95
4.
Kenya's Budding Bicameralism and Legislative--Executive Relations / Conrad M. Bosire
116
5.
Legislative--Executive Relations in Presidential Democracies: The Case of Nigeria / Sylvester Shikyil
135
pt. III
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JUDICIARY AND THE POLITICAL BRANCHES
6.
Overview of Judicial and Executive Relations in Lusophone Africa / Fernando Loureiro Bastos
159
7.
Super-presidentialism in Angola and the Angolan Judiciary / Andre Thomashausen
182
8.
Relationships with Power: Re-imagining Judicial Roles in Africa / James Fowkes
205
9.
Defying Assumptions about the Nature of Power Relations Between the Executive and Judiciary: An Overview of Approaches to Judicial and Executive Relations in Ghana / Kofi Quashigah
226
10.
Judicial-Executive Relations in Nigeria's Constitutional Development: Clear Patterns or Confusing Signals? / Ameze Guobadia
239
11.
Relations Between the Legislature and the Judiciary in Ethiopia / Assefa Fiseha
265
12.
Judicial--Executive Relations in Kenya Post-2010: The Emergence of Judicial Supremacy? / Walter Khobe Ochieng
286
13.
Overview of the Diverse Approaches to Judicial and Executive Relations: A Namibian Study of Four Cases / Nico Horn
300
pt. IV
INDEPENDENT CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS
14.
Role of Emerging Hybrid Institutions of Accountability in the Separation of Powers Scheme in Africa / Charles M. Fombad
325
15.
Public Prosecutor and the Rule of Law in Anglophone Africa / Jeffrey Jowell
345
16.
Separation of Powers and the Position of the Public Prosecutor in Francophone Africa / Charles M. Fombad
359
17.
Constitutional Legitimacy and the Separation of Powers: Looking Forward / Michaela Hailbronner
385
Index
399