LAW OF AFRICA COLLECTION

This library aims to collect primary sources of legal information from African countries in order to facilitate research into the legal systems of Africa. If you can assist us to gather more material, please contact Shirley Schroder.

Law Reports and Legislation

Primary legal material still being processed:

• East African Law Reports
• Ghana
• Kenya

You can find material on African law as follows:

Books

• Search in our catalogue:
  Under keyword terms such as “law” and the name of the country such as “Malawi” or “Sudan” or “Sierra Leone” etc. Naturally Titles and Authors may also be used.

Journal titles

• Search in our catalogue:
  Select “journal title” and then enter the title you require – for example “Tanzanian Law Reports”; “African Human Rights Law Journal”; “East Africa Law Report Series”.

Journal articles

• Generally the African legal periodicals are not indexed – one would need to consult the contents pages or indexes of the individual titles.
• For human rights law articles and book chapters, search the Human Rights Reference Collection:
  Use keywords if searching under specific topics, for example:
  
  
  
  • "women's rights" AND Kenya;
  • children AND Sudan;
  • "family law" and so on.