Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon Human Rights, Federalism, and Judicial Politics in Cameroon / by Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fossungu, Peter Ateh-Afac, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial power.

Human rights.

Human rights--Cameroon.

Judicial power--Cameroon.

Cameroon.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Place of Publication:

Masvingo, Zimbabwe : Africa Talent Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

Using one of the continents supposed pathfinders, Cameroon as case-study, this book interrogates judiciary in Africa in three domains. First, as the third branch of government, second, as the acknowledged umpire of federalism, and, finally, as a means of reversing the institutionalization of in-human rights and injustice administration in Africa. While examining the roots and causes of the persisting human rights and justice administration problems in Cameroon particularly, and Africa in general, the book through the tumbu-tumbu Long-Distance Government Theory (LDGT), argues for a rethinking and freeing of strategies currently used from close to a century of colonial and neo-colonial bondage, under the confusing covers of independence and of advanced democracy. The book challenges Africa to consider a mentality change, for a real judiciary transformative change. The book will interest legal practitioners, social anthropologists, development studies and political science practitioners, among other such practitioners in the social sciences and humanities.

Contents:

THE AMENDMENT FORMULAE WAR OF RIGIDITY AND GERMAN UNCOMMON SIMPLICITYKNOWING THE UNKNOWN STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS WITH STIFF AMENDING EXTREME CONCLUSION?; CHAPTER 4

IS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REGULATING NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA? TOWARD A CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN CAMEROON; DEBATING THE CAUSES OF JUDICIAL DEPENDENCE IN CAMEROON; STRATEGIES FOR SECURING JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE; THE UN OPTION: INEFFECTIVE AND PROMOTING THE DEPENDENCY SYNDROME IN AFRICA?; FROM PROSECUTING ONESELF TO SELECTIVE DEFENCE: ENHANCING THE DIVIDE-AND-RULE TACTICS

CHAPTER 3

HUMAN RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE JUDICIARY IN CONTEMPORARY GOVERNANCE: ABOLISHING LONG-DISTANCE GOVERNANCE IN AFRICAWITH SEPARATION OF POWERS, NOT ONLY FEDERALISM PUSHES FOR LITIGATION; SEPARATION OF POWERS AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY; ARGUING AGAINST JUDICIAL REVIEW OR JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE?; THE TIGER-DNA THEORY: DEFINING A BALANCED SUPREME CONSTITUTION AND SHAMING ESCAPIST SCHOLARSHIP; THE SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION OF THE REGIONAL AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES: THE LEGALITY WITH UNSUPREME CONSTITUTIONS?; EXAMPLES OF SUPREME CONSTITUTIONS AROUND THE GLOBE

CHAPTER 2

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND THE MAKING OF TEACHERS, JUDGES AND LAWYERS IN AFRICA: CASE OF CAMEROONWONDERS NEVER ENDING WITH POLITICAL IDIOTS: SUBVERTING SEPARATION OF POWERS BY PENAL-CODING SEPARATION OF POWERS?; THE QUESTIONS OF CAMEROON POLITICIANS AND LAWYERS: EVIDENCE OF ILLITERACY OR CONFUSIONCRACY?; THE 'CONCOURS' AS RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING MODALITY; BECOMING A LAWYER IN CAMEROON WITH NO LAW SCHOOL AND FACILITIES FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION; ON THE FACILITIES FOR JUDGES', MAGISTRATES 'AND TEACHERS' CONTINUING EDUCATION; CLOSING REMARKS

THE HEAD SECOND-FIDDLE JEOPARDY GAMETHE POR'S SECRET OF DOUBLING THE UNCONVENTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; ADVANCED REMOTE CONTROLLITICS: DUTIES OF COURTS AND THE POSSIBLY IMPOSSIBLE IMPEACHMENT; ADVANCED REMOTE CONTROLLITICS MEANS IMPOSSIBLE NEVER REALLY CAMEROONIAN?; ADVANCING INEQUALITY IN EQUALITY AND UNKNOWINGLY IMPEACHING THE UNWILLING IMPEACHER?; THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE: AN IMPEACHMENT INSTITUTION?; THE 1991 AND 1996 HIGH COURTS OF JUSTICE IMPEACHING THE PRESIDENT; CONCLUDING WITH PLACES TO LEARN FROM

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1

HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUDICIAL POLITICS IN CAMEROON: IDEAS OF A COUNTRY THAT SHOULD LEAD AFRICA OUT OF THE DUNGEON; THE HISTORY AND FALLOUTS OF THE CONFUSING SILLINESS OF JUDICIAL EXCLUSION IN POLITICS; THE FEDERALISM CONFUSION AS FALLING OUT OF SILLINESS?; HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE FROM PLAYING HAMLET WITHOUT THE PRINCE?; THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE SIZE OF THE CAMEROON SUPREME COURT; PROMOTING COURT SOLIDARITY OR REINFORCING JUDICIAL DEPENDENCE?; THE NUMERICAL MYSTERY OF NUMBERS AND HEADS

Notes:

THE INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY`S QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW IN FAVOUR OF HUMAN RIGHTS: NOT WHETHER BUT HOW

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781779295392

1779295391

OCLC:

1122456522