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This book outlines the findings and suggestions of the Law and Society Association's International Research Collaborations, which focused on the African Union's Agenda 2063. This outlined the ideal Africa aspired to by the year 2063: 'the Africa we want' . The authors examine socio-economic rights issues and their impact on developing a strong educational agenda that can drive Africa to realize Agenda 2063. As Africa's development has remained slow in the face of many challenges, the need to embrace good governance, rule of law and human rights obligations are major tools to realize the continent's potential. The project focuses in particular on the central place of education law and policy in achieving the goals of Agenda 2063.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction by Jerusa Ali, W.O. Egbewole, and T.E. Kleven.- Chapter 2: Issues of human right to basic education and equality of educational opportunity in Africa: A case study of Nigeria by Ngozi Chuma Umeh.- Chapter 3: Adoption of a human rights approach to budgeting as a step to realise the right to education in African countries by Ashwanee Budoo.- Chapter 4: Mainstreaming Human Rights Education: Africa and the Challenge of a General Jurisprudence towards Sustainable Development by Muhtar Adeiza Etudaiye and Mohammed Enesi Etudaiye.- Chapter 5: Craving for the Message but shooting the Messenger: RBA to teacher Welfare and Quality in Basic Education in Nigeria by A.C. Onuora-Oguno.- Chapter 6: The Legal Framework for Achieving the Goal of 'Education for all' in Africa: A Case Study of the Vulnerable Students in the Nigerian Borstal Institutions by Abdulraheem-Mustapha Mariam Adepeju.- Chapter 7: Right to Inclusive Development of the Girl Child in Africa by Olanike Adelakun-Odewale.- Chapter 8: The African Union's Agenda 2063: Education and its Realisation by Michael Addaney.- Chapter 9: The Impact of Education Systems on our Social economic Realities, Uganda as a case study by Sylvia Ivy Tayebwa.- Chapter 10: African Union Agenda 2063: Aspiring for Justice and the Rule of Law in Liberia by Veronica Fynn Bruey.- Chapter 11: The African Dream: Attitudes and Prejudices in African Schools by David Nnanna Chukwukadibia Ikpo.- Chapter 12: Realising maternal and child health through curbing the barriers for accessing basic education: Human rights based options for Africa by
About the author
Azubike C Onuora-Oguno is Solicitor and Advocate of the Nigerian Supreme Court. He is passionate about child's rights, with particular focus on the right to basic education, and has written widely on education, girl child rights and other areas of law. He is a former clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court.
Wahab O Egbewole is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Prof. Egbewole is an expert of judicial studies in Nigeria, a member of the America Society of International Law, Law and Society of America, Nigeria Bar Association and the International Bar Association.
Thomas E Kleven is Professor of Law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, USA. His recent book,
Equitable Sharing, posits that a principle of equitable sharing is central to what it means to be a democratic society.
Summary
This book outlines the findings and suggestions of the Law and Society Association’s International Research Collaborations, which focused on the African Union’s Agenda 2063. This outlined the ideal Africa aspired to by the year 2063: ‘the Africa we want’. The authors examine socio-economic rights issues and their impact on developing a strong educational agenda that can drive Africa to realize Agenda 2063. As Africa’s development has remained slow in the face of many challenges, the need to embrace good governance, rule of law and human rights obligations are major tools to realize the continent’s potential. The project focuses in particular on the central place of education law and policy in achieving the goals of Agenda 2063.
