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Author:   Fatima Diallo ,  Richard Calland
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   27
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9789004250659

ISBN 10:   9004250654
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   17 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Navigating the Transparency Landscape in Africa Richard Calland & Fatima Diallo PART ONE ACCESS TO INFORMATION: THEORETICAL CHALLENGES IN THE AFRICAN CONTEXT 1. The Right of Access to Information: The State of the Art and the Emerging Theory of Change Richard Calland 2. The Problem of Access to Information in African Jurisdictions: Constitutionalism, Citizenship, and the Human Rights Discourse Colin Darch 3. Transparency and Power Relations: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on the Right of Access to Information Fatima Diallo 4. Constitutional Domestication of the Right of Access to Information in Africa: Retrospect and Prospects Fola Adeleke PART TWO THEMATIC STUDIES: STATISTICS, INTERNET, EITI AND ATI 5. Statistics, Indicators and Access to Information in African Countries Colin Darch 6. The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and Corruption in Nigeria: Rethinking the Links between Transparency and Accountability Uwafiokun Idemudia 7. Towards Realizing the Right of Access to Internet-Based Information in Africa Fola Adeleke & Matilda Lasseko Phooko PART THREE ATI REGIONAL CONTEXT AND COUNTRY STUDIES 8. An Actionable Constitutional Right of ATI: The Case of Southern Africa Matilda Lasseko Phooko 9. The Uganda Freedom of Information Campaign: Stuck in the Mud? Dan Ngabirano 10. Realizing the Right of Access to Information in kenya: What Should Stakeholders Be on the Lookout for? Edwin Abuya 11. The Right to Information in Burkina Faso: An Unfinished Quest Abdoul Karim Sango 12. Access to Information and Transparency: Opportunities and Challenges for Nigeria's FOI Act 2011 Morayo Adebayo & Akinyinka Akinyoade List of Contributors Index

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Fatima Diallo is a PhD affiliate in Legal Anthropology at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. As a Senegalese constitutionalist from Gaston Berger University, she is the deputy general secretary of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers where she acted, for the past years, as the engine of the Access to Information Working Group. She was dedicated to monitor the network research agenda on governmental transparency and accountability. Richard Calland is Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. In a recent Columbia University publication on measuring the impact of access to information, Professor Sheila Coronel described Calland as a South African activist and academic who was one of the pioneers of the global Right to Information movement . In recent years, Calland convened the Access to Information Working Group of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers.

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