The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of Africa's Independence and Post-Independence Constitutions

This book provides a collection of chapters that critically explore the making and development of Africa's independence constitutions through the different phases in their full generality. Since independence, various constitutions from African countries have undergone a succession of changes, triggered by either the domestic or international environment or both. These processes constitute autonomous epochal 'waves' or 'phases' of constitution-making which need to be unpacked, historicised and explored in a systematic manner. This work, intended as a distinctive object of positive analysis, historicizes the independence constitutions of selected African states on either a country-specific or a comparative basis. A historical approach to the continental study of constitutions is rare, meaning the continental coverage of the book is justified by Africa's rich diversity reflected in its multiple monarchical and colonial backgrounds. The book is of interest to academics interested in having a panoramic view of Africa's constitutional development from a historical perspective.

Chapter One General Introduction.- Chapter Two The Trajectory of Presidential Monarchism in Post Colonial Africa.- Chapter Three The Processes of Making Ghana s Independence Constitution and the Triumph of the Unitary State Model.- Chapter Four The Making of Ghana s Fourth Republican Constitution, Power Alternation and Stability.- Chapter Five The Politics of Constitution Making In Zambia 1964 2021.- Chapter Six The 1961 Constitution, Race, and Political Realignments in Colonial Zimbabwe.- Chapter Seven The Permanent Transition of Post-Colonial Constitution Writing in Sudan s First and Second Republic.- Chapter Eight The Problematics of Fiscal Federalism in Post-Colonial Nigeria.- Chapter Nine Constitutional Development in Post Independence Francophone West Africa A Comparative Case Study of Senegal and Co te d Ivoire.- Chapter Ten Independence Constitution-Making in the Kingdom of Eswatini and the Triumph of Traditionalism.- Chapter Eleven Constitutionalism in Morocco The Making of Kings Constitutions.