A new jurisprudence for Africa

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 135-149

  Prempeh, H Kwasi ^a  

^a Center for Democracy and Development   (Ghana)

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EID: 0033446335     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1999.0054     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Alexander M. Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics 2nd. ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986), 29.
2. Ibid.
3. For an insightful assessment of the progress of Ghana's democratic transition, see E. Gyimah-Boadi, "Ghana's Encouraging Elections: The Challenges Ahead," Journal of Democracy 8 (April, 1997): 78-91.
4. Kathurima M'inoti, "Why The Kenyan Bill of Rights Has Failed," Expression Today (November 1998).
5. Article 165 of the Ghanaian constitution requires that this clause be read in conjunction with Article 21(4)(e), which mandates that a restriction of a fundamental right be "reasonably justifiable in terms of the spirit of [the] constitution."
6. Examples are the Namibian Supreme Court in Kausea v. Minister of Home Affairs (1995); the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Zundel (1992); and the European Court of Human Rights in Bowman v. United Kingdom (1998).
7. See, for example, the judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu (1994) and of the U.S. Supreme Court in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964).
8. This and other leading cases decided by Benin's Constitutional Court are discussed in Bruce Magnusson, "Testing Democracy in Benin: Experiments in Institutional Reform," in Richard Joseph, ed., State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1998), 217-37.
9. See Muna Ndulo, "Legal Education in Zambia: Pedagogical Issues," Commonwealth Legal Association Newsletter 42 (July 1985).