Constitutionalism and Democratic Governance in Africa: - PULP

CONTRIBUTORS
Adem Kassie Abebe started his academic career at the University of
Haramaya, Ethiopia, as an Assistant Lecturer in September 2007. Dr
Abebe holds an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa
from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, SA. In 2012 he
completed a Doctor of Laws at the University of Pretoria. He is the
Ethiopian Country Reporter to the ‘Oxford Constitutions Online’ Project.
Dr Abebe has worked as a research fellow at the Centre for Governance
and Human Rights, University of Cambridge, as well as at the Max Planck
Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg,
Germany. He has also been involved in several projects at the Centre for
Human Rights, including the African Human Rights Moot Court
Competition and the Access to Information Law in Africa projects. He has
published in reputable peer-reviewed journals in Europe, the USA, South
Africa and Ethiopia. He is currently a post-doctorate fellow at the Centre
for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. His areas of interest include
comparative constitutional law and human rights in Africa.
Ademola Oluborode Jegede received an LLB from the Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1997 and was admitted to the
Nigerian Bar in 1999. He holds a degree of Masters of Public Health
(MPH) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and an LLM (Human
Rights and Democratisation in Africa) from the Centre for Human Rights,
University of Pretoria. Mr Ademola has extensive experience in research
and practice in diverse areas of human rights and security. Since 1999, in
addition to serving as a legal researcher at the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as an intern with the
Refugee Law Project in Uganda, he has worked in a consultative and
advisory capacity with NGOs (national and international), intergovernmental
and governmental institutions focusing particularly on how
these fields are shaped by governance and accountability mechanisms. He
has published papers in this area. Mr Ademola is a winner of the Keba
M'baye Prize for the best dissertation in the LLM (Human Rights &
Democratisation in Africa) and a fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar,
Austria.
Benedict Maige Nchalla holds the degrees LLM (Cambridge, UK),
LLM Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (Pretoria, SA), LLB
(Hons) (Tumaini, TZ). He is a lecturer in law and Head, Constitutional
and Administrative Law Department, at Makumira University College of
Tumaini University in Tanzania. He is also a legal consultant attached to
Maruma and Co Advocates, Arusha Chambers.
Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila graduated with an LLB from the
University of Botswana and has been admitted as attorney of the courts of
Botswana. He holds the degree LLM (cum laude) from the Human Rights
and Democratisation in Africa University of Pretoria, SA. He is currently
a doctoral candidate with the University of Pretoria and a Lecturer in the
Department of Law, University of Botswana, where he teaches, among
other subjects, constitutional law, customary law, gender and the law and
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