As a lawyer with over twenty years expertise in human rights and constitutional law, I have made an extensive contribution on issues relating to the legal and judicial protection of human rights , the rule of law, international human rights law, constitutional governance and democratisation in Africa.

As a legal practitioner, I developed expertise in knowledge management and capacity bulding from my early engagement as a coordinator of training sessions organised by the Africa Supreme Courts Association between 2002 and 2006. I have since been working with various institutions as a facilitator in training judges, lawyers, civil society and national human rights institutions on human rights litigation. I have also worked as litigation coordinator, counsel, or agent in cases before regional human rights bodies in Africa. My main venture as a practitioner is drawn from my twelve years’ professional career as senior legal expert, principal legal officer, and head of legal department as the African Commission, and African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, since 2012. In these capacities, I contributed directly to litigation and adjudication of landmark human rights cases in the region ranging from fair trial to indigenous peoples’ rights, freedom of expression, political participation, constitutional democracy, nationality, death penalty, women’s rights, and judicial independence. My exhaustive work is featured in my résumé, which may be consulted here ...

I took my path as an author as the obvious result of academic involvement. My impetus as an author came from converting my master’s thesis on the right to reparation in comparative constitutional and international law. This inaugural publication in 2010 was the catalyst for my bibliographic contribution worth books, book chapters, journal articles, commentaries and other blog write ups on judicial independence, freedom of expression, women’s rights, constitutional adjudication, separation of powers, international human rights courts and jurisprudence, constitutional democracy, and international criminal justice. I have also authored or reviewed manuals and study reports on human rights litigation, enforcement and reporting; and reforms of the judiciary in Africa. Some of my other significant achievements include the editorial leadership of the African Human Rights Yearbook, and the African Court Law Report; and review of several articles and chapters for the African Human Rights Law Journal, and the Pretoria University Law Press.