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Trends on the Harmonization of Contract Law in Africa
2007
The article examines the different initiatives of the harmonization of contract law in the African context
Informal laws and state law in the horn of Africa
2019
This essay examines the relationship existing between informal law and state laws in the four countries of the Horn of Africa from an historical and comparative perspective. Such relation is considered from the time when the four countries became independent, however reference is also made from time to time to the colonial background when necessary to justify a particular situation. The analysis casts also an eye to the relation existing between religious laws and state laws, as religious laws represent an essential component in the interaction between state laws and the other normative orders present in these four countries. The essay concludes with some recommendations for the improvement…
The integration of informal business law in the OHADA framework. Methodological reflections
2021
OHADA represents today a successful example of legal integration that offers a modern and reliable legal environment regarding business law in those countries that have joined it. However, such a modern integrated system of business law appears to be unsuited to the informal business sector that still represents a vital segment of the economy in most of the African countries. The paper discusses the attempts that have been made to integrate the informal business sector in the OHADA framework, trying to understand the reasons why they have been substantially unsuccessful and suggests a possible way forward to make such integration possible.
Comparative Law in Africa: Methodologies and Concepts
2015
Proceedings of the workshop held in Cape Town on the same theme
A gap is a gap everywhere? An African Contribution to the Taxonomy of Legal Gaps
2014
The article examines the issue of legal gaps from the perspective of African law
Comparative Law in the African context
2015
The article paves the way to the creation of a specific comparative law methodology for the studies of African legal system in a comparative perspective.
OHADA law and its target population: Is there room for African traditional law within the harmonisation of contract laws in Africa?
2018
The essay studies to which extent the African legal culture can contribute to the development of official law in Africa. Particular attention is deserved to contract law and the idea of harmonizing the area of contract law in the OHADA context.
An African concept of settlement of disputes
2013
The article analyzes the African appproach to the settlement of disputes and its differences with the Western one.
Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market
2022
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to characterise the position of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market and to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on that position.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on the biographical work stories of 17 highly educated African migrant workers in four occupation areas in Finland: healthcare, cleaning, restaurant and transport. The sample was partly purposively and partly theoretically determined. The authors used content driven thematic analysis technique, combined with by the biographical narrative concept of turning points.FindingsUsing the case of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market, …
A Chain of Voices: A "Masters and Slaves" Narrative
2022
Because no less than thirty different narrators take turns to tell us the story of a slave revolt, A Chain of Voices can be read as Brink's attempt at revisiting the classical "slave narrative", turning it into a polyphonic "masters and slaves" narrative in which everyone is given a say. This article examines how this polyphonic, and even multifocal, mode of narration enables Brink to write back to both classical slave narratives and to their twentieth-century counterparts, the neo-slave narratives. What it suggests is that although A Chain of Voices bears many resemblances to neo-slave narratives in terms of form, especially because of its recourse to polyphony, it is also extremely close …