Research
My experience in legal research and publication has been endorsed by leading research and publishing institutions. I associate with projects and institutions such as the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa, International Law in Domestic Courts, I.Connect, Oxford University Press, and Pretoria University Law Press.
I undertake research in the fields of law, human rights, democracy, constitutionalism, and governance with a focus on Africa. My skills in this area include undertaking research, conducting and drafting studies, drafting manuals and tools for law professionals, academics and civil society.
Among other such main achievements, I pride the drafting of the Manual for Litigants before the ECOWAS Court; the drafting of the Study on the Impact of COVID 19 and Access to Justice in Africa; the drafting of an Analysis Note on the African Commission’s Decision in the Kilwa Case – Communication 393/10 – IRHDA and Others v DRC; and the reviewing of the Training Manual on Shadow Report by CSO on Women’s Rights in Africa.
Training
I have a long and diversified experience in training law professionals in Africa including among lawyers, civil society actors, judges, and law students on:
- Human rights law
- Human rights litigation
- International criminal law and justice in Africa
- African regional integration and institutions
- Constitutional law and litigation
I work as a trainer or facilitator with leading relevant institutions in Africa including the International Commission of Jurists, Equality Now, RADDHO, Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Global Rights, African Court Coalition, Trust Africa, African Union Department of Political Affairs, IDEA International, ECOWAS Court, Media Foundation for West Africa, Centre for Human Rights (Pretoria) and Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa.
Teaching and Conferences
My passion for teaching dates back in my primary school years as I gathered the unschooled within my social sphere to replicate my daily classroom experience.
I boost over a decade extensive teaching engagement with a wide range of stakeholders within both English and French speaking spheres. I teach human rights and comparative constitutional law at various academic institutions, including law faculties and institutes for human rights, democracy, governance and constitutionalism in Africa and Europe.
My teaching experience is strongly influenced by my long-standing interaction with the legal profession at both national and international levels. I am an established trainer and facilitator of trainings for judges, lawyers, government officers, and civil society actors on human rights litigation and advocacy. I coordinated regional projects aimed at incorporating human rights into the curriculum of law schools and judicial training centres for the training of judges in more than 20 African countries.
As a leading actor in the field of legal knowledge making, I have endeavoured to adapt to the modern professional approach to teaching, which is through conferences. My conferencing skills are extended to speeches, lectures, presentations, facilitation of conferences, judging international law competitions on a wide range of issues such as human rights litigation and adjudication, socio political governance and democracy in Africa, freedom of journalists, women and children’s rights, international criminal law and justice, the making of constitutions in transitions, and constitutionalism in Africa.