Kenya says EAC-EU trade talks could be concluded by May
Source: New Europe
Could the rise of ‘original sin’ condemn African governments once more?
Source: Euromoney
Agreements with African countries on focus at Fisheries Council
Source: FIS
President Kenyatta Hosts Drama Festival Finalists
Source: Citizen News
Partnership signed at Africa conference
Source: Yale Daily News
The producers of Kony 2012 say they've learned their lesson, but critics aren't so sure
Source: PRI's The World
President Uhuru Kenyatta says upgrade of national theatre will promote art
Source: Standard Digital
South Sudan Conflict: Personalities, Resources, and Threats
Source: Africa in Transition
Chinese companies face challenges in Gabon
Source: Steel Guru
The 9 Best Jobs In Africa Don't Exist Yet
Source: Forbes
Africa in the Eyes of Westerners
Source: Huffington Post
Security agencies focus on African organised crime
Source: New Era
Report: Africa's Economic Prosperity at Risk From Instability
Source: Voice of America
SABMiller’s Africa sales slow growth
Source: Business Day
Goodbye, Afghanistan — hello, Africa: Air Force sees resource shift as U.S. exits Middle East
Source: Washington Times
Why the sudden rush into Africa? It’s the oil
Source: Dawn
Nadine Gordimer: The disillusion and corruption of post-Mandela South Africa
Source: Christian Science Monitor
South Africa’s Biggest Banks Fined in Money-Laundering Probe
Source: Bloomberg News
Tax payments helping Africa’s ‘quantum jump’ in growth, says bank chief
Source: Out-Law.com
Africa Is Refuting the Usual Economic Pessimism
Source: Wall Street Journal
UK money transfer firms accused of excessive charges on Africa remittances
Source: The Guardian
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
New Africa Book of the Day - 14 April 2014
The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future Prospects by Andrew Novak
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Sangmin Bae of Northeastern Illinois University writes:Over the past decade the death penalty has sharply declined across the African continent, and the number of executions outside of North Africa has fallen to a trickle. While this would seem to fit within the general global decline in executions and the increasing number of abolitionist jurisdictions worldwide, it is a process that bears little relation to public opinion in Africa or to the strong retributivist sentiments held by the continent's political elites. This study places modern capital punishment in Africa within the context of religious and culturally specific notions of life, death, and burial as well as the Western imposition of criminal and penal policy during the colonial era. The tensions of the death penalty in present-day sub-Saharan Africa, increasingly limited to English-speaking and common-law Africa (as well as majority-Islamic regions), reflect these historical origins.
Despite its political and cultural significance, Africa has been an under-researched continent in the study of the death penalty. The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future Prospects fills this gap in scholarship through an eloquent account of the origins, key features and dynamics of the death penalty in Africa. This timely book deserves much attention from anyone interested in the history and future of the death penalty.Author Andrew Novak teaches the death penalty, comparative constitutional law, and common law in Africa at the George Mason University Law School in Arlington, Virginia. He has a law degree from Boston University and a master's degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also teaches at American University in Washington, D.C., and is author of the forthcoming The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty: Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (Ashgate Publishing Company, June 2014).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)