Following on from a two-day Round Table on ‘African Approaches to International Law’, held at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, on 3 and 4 May 2017, a two-day Conference is scheduled for 5 and 6 December 2018, in Pretoria: the ‘Kéba Mbaye Conference on African approaches to international law, with a focus on international human rights law’.
The aim of this Conference is to continue a process of discussing “African approaches to international (human rights) law”, building on the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) approach, but rethinking and “vernacularising” it.
Questions to be addressed include:
Contributors are invited to reflect specifically on international human rights law.
Other questions to be posed may include:
Contributors may also draw inspiration from the ‘Report of the Round Table’ and brief list of sources at the end of this document.
Papers are also encouraged on the history of international (human rights) law, focusing on Africa’s exclusions, biases and distortions in existing narratives and in the writing of history itself. The representation of “Africa” in the teaching sources and methodologies of international law could also be canvassed.