CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Abdulai, Emmanuel Saffa |
|---|---|
| Title | Assessing the Laws and Practices of Access to Information Law in Africa |
| Summary | Freedom of Information has gained an alarming prominence among political, as well as legal, scholars around the world as both a good governance and human rights protection tool. The essence and ramifications of this concept has remained vague and various laws around the world have given different interpretations to the established strands for a solid freedom of information law. This has produced a difference in laws in terms of the degree of adherence, from very good laws to average laws. Advocacy has also been led by mainly transparency leading civil society organisations around the world. Many have face insurmountable difficulties but are still pushing. This thesis would examine the content of an ideal FOI law and the established principles in general; assesses two advocacy campaigns in Africa – Sierra Leone and Nigeria; and analysis two of the four laws in the continent – Uganda and South Africa. |
| Supervisor | Nsoguru Ndombana |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/abdulai_emmanuel.pdf |
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