- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), University of Pretoria
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2013 2nd Semester / 2014 2nd Semester / 2015 2nd Semester / 2016 2nd Semester / 2017 2nd Semester / 2018 2nd Semester / 2019 2nd Semester / 2021 2nd Semester / 2022 2nd Semester / 2023 2nd Semester
Projects
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African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives
The general focus is on examining critical issues affecting the promotion of constitutionalism in Africa from a comparative perspective. -
Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The focus of the study for this year, under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa will be the issue of separation of powers. -
African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives (2)
The main project that I have engaged in at STIAS since 2013 falls under the general theme, African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives. -
Constitution-building in Africa: Decentralisation and constitutionalism in Africa
Under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa, the focus of this project will be on the issue of decentralisation and constitutionalism in Africa. -
“ELECTIONS, DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AFRICA”
The Stellenbosch Annual Seminars on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) programme, African constitutionalism: comparative perspectives, falls under the STIAS project theme The future of democracy which started in September 2013. -
Constitution-building in Africa: Corruption and constitutionalism in Africa – Revisiting control measures and strategies
The focus of the 2017 seminar under this project is on the theme, Corruption and constitutionalism in Africa: Revisiting control measures and strategies. -
The political economy of oral health in sub-Saharan Africa – uncovering the silent oral health crisis and exposing reasons for low public health priority
The focus of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) 2019 will be on constitutionalism and the economy in Africa. -
Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The main purpose of this project is to interrogate whether the challenges faced by the new generation of African constitutions to enhance the prospects for constitutionalism was due, inter alia, to their lack of alignment with the African social context in terms of reflecting an African constitutional identity.
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Event
STIAS and ICLA partner in First Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the University of Pretoria are organising the first of what is expected to be an annual series of seminars on African constitutionalism funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
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Third Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa
The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce that the Third SASCA event will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 16 to 18 September 2015.
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SASCA 2018: Call for proposals
The Organisers* of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the Sixth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2018) which will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Tuesday 4 September to Friday 7 September 2018.
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Fourth Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa, 7 to 9 Sept 2016
The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce that the Fourth SASCA seminar will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Centre in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 7 to 9 September 2016.
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SASCA 2017 - Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa
The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce that the Fifth SASCA event will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Research Centre in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 19 to 22 September 2017.
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Democracy, elections and constitutionalism in Africa - SASCA 2018
The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce that the Sixth SASCA event will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Research Centre, 10 Marais Straat, Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 4 to 6 September 2018.
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SASCA 2019 - Constitutionalism and the economy in Africa (public lecture)
You are cordially invited to attend a public lecture at STIAS organised as part of the Seventh Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa, (SASCA 2019), 18-20 September 2019.
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SASCA 2019 - Constitutionalism and the economy in Africa
The seventh Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA7) will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Research Centre from Wednesday 18 September to Friday 20 September 2019.
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Second Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa
The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce that the Second SASCA event will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 17 to 19 September 2014.
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SASCA 2021 - Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The eigth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2021) will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Research Centre from Thursday 16 September to Friday 17 September 2021.
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SASCA 2022 - Constitutional Change and Constitutionalism in Africa
The ninth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2022) will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Research Centre from Tuesday 13 September to Friday 16 September 2022.
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SASCA 2023 - Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The tenth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2023) will be held at the STIAS-Wallenberg Research Centre from Tuesday 19 September to Friday 22 September 2023.
Article
SASCA-3 report on constitutional adjudication in Africa
The Third Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2015), jointly organised by the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) was held in Stellenbosch, South Africa from Wednesday 16 September to Friday 18 September 2015.
Article
Examining the impact of corruption in Africa – SASCA Seminar 2017
Corruption is no longer just a simple crime or even just a crime against development but should be ranked amongst crimes against humanity.
Article
Examining constitutionalism and the economy in Africa – SASCA 2019
The key challenge is to live the constitution.
Article
A journey through the realities of constitutional identity and constitutionalism in Africa
Africa has experienced waves of constitutional ordering, which includes both the drafting of written constitutions and their implementation, all with the aim of regulating the exercise of state power.
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The making, unmaking and remaking of constitutions in Africa - SASCA 2022
Moves to craft a new generation of African constitutions that began in the 1990s promised a new dawn of radical transformation of the continent’s governance landscape and a concerted attempt to eliminate the risks of coups, political instability and other social and economic problems that had plagued the continent since independence in the 1960s.
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Call for papers: Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa - SASCA 2023
The organisers of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) are pleased to announce the call for papers for the tenth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2023) which will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Tuesday, 19 September to Friday, 22 September 2023.
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SASCA - Celebrating 10 years of scholarly dialogue on constitutionalism in Africa
Is this the country I was fighting for?
Publication
Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism
Fombad, Charles M, ed. 2016. Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/12345...
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Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. 2017. Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa. Volume 3 in the Oxford series Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutionalis...
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Constitutional Adjudication in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. 2017. Constitutional Adjudication in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/constitutional-adjudicatio...
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Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2019. Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press . https://global.oup.com/acad...
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Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2020. Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
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Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.) 2021. Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/a...
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Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2022. Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/97801...
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Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2024. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.co...