The Land rights in Africa page forms part of the Oxfam website providing information and documentation on Oxfam's work relating to policy and land law in African countries. The aim of Oxfam and other NGOs is to help communities become more aware of their rights. There is a statement of Oxfam's principles relating to justice and equality, access to land and security of tenure. Working papers and discussion documents are arranged under the following headings: Africa general; West Africa; East Africa; Horn of Africa and Southern Africa.
Online article looking at forced evictions and disability rights in Africa written by Buhle Angelo Dube who is a lecturer at the University of Swaziland's Law Department. The article was published in 2008 (and updated in 2023 by Sibusiso Nhlabatsi) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The first section explains the background to forced evictions and their impact in Africa and focuses on this practice in Ghana, Swaziland and Botswana.
Article looking at transitional justice and the African truth commissions, written by Charles Manga Fombad who is Professor of Law at the University of Botswana. The article was published in 2008 and updated in 2022 on New York University's Globalex website. Covers truth commissions in 18 African countries and comments on their work. Links are given to related legal resources including research guides, bibliographies and law libraries.
Guide to human rights protection of minority languages in Africa, by Innocent Maja, Senior Partner of a Zimbabwean law firm and a Lecturer in the Private Law Department at the University of Zimbabwe's Faculty of Law. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The author provides an introduction to the subject looking at various definitions of what a minority language is and the threat of extinction to minority languages.
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre began as a joint initiative between the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). It works to foster human rights, democracy, the rule of law and access to justice in the region by means of advocacy, litigation, training and capacity building. The Centre's website has information about its cases, together with reports, briefings, statements, articles and news. The content can be browsed by topic or by country.
Treaty page of the African Union (AU) website, providing treaties sponsored by the AU with lists of participants and dates of adoption, entry into force and ratification. The list of treaties can be filtered by subject. All the treaty texts are available English and French and some are also in Arabic and/or Portuguese; the status lists are in English only.
Peer-reviewed open access journal published at the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, United States. The journal comes out twice a year; it focuses on criminology and justice systems and their impact on Africans and people of African descent.
Peer-reviewed journal covering governance and the rule of law in Africa, published by Brill. Open access from 2004 to 2017, contents pages only 2018 onwards.
Annotated links to African legal material available online, provided by Stanford University Libraries. The links are arranged alphabetically and cover journals, organisations, government bodies, official publications, research centres, courts and case law. There are also links to general sites providing information on African law. Some of the resources linked to are in French.
