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A Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand improve and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms. By locating constitutional studies in Africa within the experiences interactions and contestations of power and governance beginning in precolonial times the book presents the development and transformation of African constitutional systems across time and place along with the attendant constitutional designs and practices ranging from the nature and operation of the African state to its vertical and horizontal government structures to its constitutional rights regime. This title offers both a theoretically and comparatively rich historically and contextually informed and temporally and spatially extensive account of the nature travails and incremental successes of African constitutionalism with detailed case studies from Nigeria Ethiopia and South Africa. A Theory of African Constitutionalism provides scholars policymakers governments and constitution builders in Africa and beyond with new insights for reimagining the purpose substance and scope of constitutions and constitutionalism.