Routledge Studies on Law in Africa
About the Book Series
The books in this series explore complex, emerging, and topical legal theoretical and policy questions and debates on law in Africa. The series addresses the entire panoply of the legal universe in Africa including international law, human rights, constitutional law, transitional justice, IP law, gender and the law, media law, African legal history, religion and the law, and trade law, among others.
The series recognizes the lacunae on published works on the law in Africa and seeks to fill that void with both African and Africanist scholars and thinkers. The goal is to bring to African and global audiences -- students, scholars, activists, and policy-makers -- a wide and deep canvas of knowledge of the most important legal questions and issues. Taking a broad view of the field and including a wide range of voices -- critical, traditional, interdisciplinary – the series will publish a mix of single-authored volumes and edited collections from scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
You are encouraged to submit book proposals and/or manuscripts to:
Professor Makau Mutua
SUNY Distinguished Professor
SUNY Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
626 O'Brian Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
UNITED STATES
Email: [email protected]
And Helena Hurd, Editor for African Studies: [email protected]
Legal and Financial Aspects of Project Finance in Africa
1st Edition
By Boris Martor, Ousmane Diawara
September 23, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the specifics of project financing in Africa and suggests how to structure and operate those projects in an emerging continent. Infrastructure development in Africa is essential to meet the needs of the population and is a major lever for economic and ...
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Law in Africa
1st Edition
By Romola Adeola
September 09, 2025
This book examines artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa from a rights-based perspective. In recent years, technology has emerged as a significant disruptor, with AI, robotics and computer advancement in particular driving changes in societies around the world. There are evident and daunting ...
Company Law and Directors’ Duties in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fixing the Enforcement Regime
1st Edition
By Oludara Akanmidu
August 29, 2025
This book provides a critical analysis of the enforcement regime for breach of directors’ duties in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Tanzania, it interrogates the current ‘state of play’ regarding the enforcement of directors’ duties in sub-Saharan African countries. The ...
The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order
1st Edition
By Kofi Oteng Kufuor
June 27, 2025
In 2018, the members of the African Union adopted the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA). This book examines the AfCFTA, dissecting its key provisions. It stresses the importance of the AfCFTA in the context of increasing episodes of trade protection in Africa, and it theorizes ...
Corporate Governance in Africa
1st Edition
By Victor Ediagbonya
December 31, 2024
This book discusses the issue of limited stakeholder recognition and protection of stakeholder interests within the Anglo-Saxon corporate governance model practised in many sub-Saharan African countries. The volume argues that the relative success of the Anglo-Saxon model in developed economies is ...
Financial Inclusion Regulatory Practices in SADC: Addressing Prospects and Challenges in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Chitimira, Tapiwa Warikandwa
October 09, 2024
Against a background of calls to prioritise the improvement of financial inclusion in Africa, this book provides an analysis of current financial inclusion measures in Southern Africa. Evaluating the existing strengths and weaknesses of financial inclusion in Africa, it identifies opportunities to ...
Social and Economic Rights in Africa: International and Public Law Perspectives
1st Edition
By Nsongurua Udombana
October 08, 2024
Social and economic rights have hitherto been marginalised in mainstream legal and political discourses and treated as second-class citizens in the human rights family. These rights are now receiving increasing attention in law and politics, arguably because they raise existential questions on ...
Internally Displaced Persons and the Law in Nigeria
1st Edition
By Aderomola Adeola
August 26, 2024
This book examines the national legal frameworks in place for internally displaced people in Nigeria and considers how they can be extended to provide further legal protection. Despite a growing global awareness of the importance of developing solutions to the problem of internal displacement, how ...
Nigerian Intellectual Property Law: Reform and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ayoyemi Lawal-Arowolo, Kunle Ola
September 25, 2023
This book reflects on the development of Nigeria’s intellectual property law and outlines the urgent need for reform. Bringing together expert contributors from around the world, the book identifies and discusses the inadequacies and lacunas in current intellectual property law, and how it is ...
The Constitution and Governance in Cameroon
1st Edition
By Laura-Stella E. Enonchong
April 29, 2022
This book provides a systematic analysis of the major structural and institutional governance mechanisms in Cameroon, critically analysing the constitutional and legislative texts on Cameroon’s semi-presidential system, the electoral system, the legislature, the judiciary, the Constitutional ...