LLB(University of Buea), LLM(UP), PhD(Åbo Akademi University) 

Manager: Children Rights Unit 

Tel  +27 (0) 12 420 3587
Fax +27 (0)86 580 5743 
elvis.fokala@up.ac.za 

Expertise: 
Children’s Rights (focus on Africa), Public International Law, International Human Rights Law (focus on Africa) 

Social Media:
Linkedin: https://za.linkedin.com/in/elvis-fokala-420097aa
Twitter: @elvisfokala 
Facebook: web.facebook.com/efokala 

Published in Journals

2021

• ‘Do not forget the Nubians: Kenya’s compliance with the decisions of African regional treaty bodies on the plight and rights of Nubians’ 2021 De Jure Law Journal 476-492
  www.dejure.up.ac.za/images/files/vol54-2021/5%20Do%20not%20forget%20the%20Nubians.pdf

2020    

• ‘Calibrating children’s right to participate in a family setting 30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the rights of the child and the African Children’s Charter’ (2020) 34(2) Speculum Juris 188 - 200.http://specjuris.ufh.ac.za/calibrating-children%E2%80%99s-rights-participate-family-setting-30-years-after-adoption-convention-rights
  
  
• ‘Age or maturity? African children’s right to participate in medical decision-making processes’ (2020) 20(2) African Human Rights Law Journal 667-687 (with Annika Rudman) https://www.ahrlj.up.ac.za/fokala-e-rudman-a?highlight=WyJmb2thbGEiXQ==

2019

• ‘The Impact of the Best Interests and the Respect for the views of the child principles in child custody cases (2019) 88(4) Nordic Journal of International law 614 - 635. https://brill.com/view/journals/nord/88/4/article-p614_614.xml?language=en

2014    

• ‘Stateless and Rights: Protecting the Rights of Nubian Children in Kenya through the African Children’s Committee’ (2014) 6(2) African Journal of Legal Studies 357 - 373. (with Lilian Chenwi) https://brill.com/view/journals/ajls/6/2-3/article-p357_10.xml

2013

• ‘The Relevance of a Multidisciplinary Interpretation of Selected Aspects Related to Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Africa’ (2013) 17, Law, Democracy & Development 177 – 201 http://law.uwc.ac.za/images/stories/ldd/elvismultidisprapproach.pdf

2011

• ‘The Protection of the Socio-economic Rights of Older Women: An appraisal of the CEDAW committee’s general recommendation no. 27’ (2011) 12(1) ESR Review 6.

Editorials – Special issues

2021

• Special focus: Implementing regional human rights standards in East and West Africa Fokala ‘Editorial introduction: Compliance with regional human rights – Focus on East and West Africa’ 2021 De Jure Law Journal\
  401- 403 www.dejure.up.ac.za/images/files/vol54-2021/1%20Editorial%20introduction%20Compliance%20with%20Regional%20Human%20Rights.pdf

• Electoral Democracy in Africa: Beyond Ensuring Free, Fair and Transparent Elections Rudman, Annika, and Elvis Fokala. 2021. “Electoral Democracy in Africa: Beyond Ensuring Free, Fair and Transparent Elections” Southern African Public Law 36 (1) unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/SAPL/issue/view/418

Chapters in Books

2020    

• ‘Looking back to Look ahead: Tracing Kenya’s Compliance with and Implementation of Regional Decisions on the Rights of Nubians’ in a J Biegon (ed) Silver granules in Stretches of Sand: case studies from East Africa on implementation of regional decisions on Human Rights (International Commission of Jurist, 2020) 24 – 38.               

Thesis (Published)

2017 

•  Implementing children’s right to participation in family decision-making processes in Africa (Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2017 https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/144086