Constitutional Identity
Africa's Chequered Journey to Constitutional Democracy
Introduction: In Search of Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
Part 1: Overview of Concepts and Key Issues, Colonial and Traditional Constitutional Identities, and Path Dependency
1. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa: Concepts and Key Issues
2. Constitutional Checks and Balances in Traditional Africa
3. Constitutional Identity and Traditional Authority in the Post-colony
4. The Struggle for Constitutional Identity in Francophone Africa
5. Who Are 'We, the People'? Pluralist Constitutional Identity after Democratic Transitions in African and European Countries
Part 2: Case Studies
6. A Century of South African Constitutional Identities
7. Constitutional Identity and Disruption in Contemporary Ethiopia
8. Rooting Constitutional Identity in African Countries without Pre-colonial Institutional Traditions but with National Values: The Cape Verdean Experience and the Role of the Constitutional Court
9. Cameroon and the Crisis of Constitutional Identity: Is Anglophone Identity Compatible with a Cameroonian Constitutional Identity?
10. Taking Power from the People: Shifting Constitutional Identity in Egypt
Part 3: Conclusion
11. Fostering a Sense of Constitutional Identity amid the Travails of African Constitutionalism.