The African Sovereign Debt Justice Network, (AfSDJN), is a coalition of citizens, scholars, civil society actors and church groups committed to exposing the adverse impact of unsustainable levels of African sovereign debt on the lives of ordinary citizens.

Convened by Afronomicslaw.org with the support of Open Society for Southern Africa, (OSISA), the AfSDJN's activities are tailored around addressing the threats that sovereign debt poses for economic development, social cohesion and human rights in Africa. It advocates for debt cancellation, rescheduling and restructuring as well as increasing the accountability and responsibility of lenders and African governments about how sovereign debt is procured, spent and repaid.  

Focusing in particular on Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal, the AfSDJN will also amplify African voices and decolonize narratives on African sovereign debt . Its activities include producing research outputs to enhance the network’s advocacy interventions. It also seeks to create awareness on and elevate the priority given to sovereign debt and other economic justice issues on the African continent and beyond throughout 2021. 

Recent articles

• Sovereign Debt News Update No. 138: Ghana's Fiscal Path: Insights from Recent Credit Upgrades and Debt Management Efforts
• Sovereign Debt News Update No. 137: Kenya’s Insatiable Debt Swap Appetite as a ‘Debt Management Tool’
• Sovereign Debt News Update No. 136: Behind Kenya’s Odious Debt Reckoning
• Sovereign Debt News Update No. 135: Understanding Mozambique’s Hurdles Under the Previous IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Programme
• Sovereign Debt News Update No. 134: Navigating Sovereign Debt Crisis and Legal Battles Amid Political Instability: Afreximbank vs South Sudan

The Analysis Section of Afronomicslaw.org publishes two types of content on issues of international economic law and public international law, and related subject matter, relating to Africa and the Global South. First, individual blog submissions which readers are encouraged to submit for consideration. Second, feature symposia, on discrete themes and book reviews that fall within the scope of the subject matter focus of Afronomicslaw.org. 

Recent articles

• Preferred in Principle, Penalised in Practice: Afreximbank and the Politics of Preferred Creditor Status*
• Book Review III of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order
• Book Review II of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order
• Book Review I of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order - The Problem of Protectionism in Africa
• Open Africa to Africans: Inaugural African Youth Essay Competition

This category hosts video recordings of Afronomicslaw webinars as well as Afronomicslaw.org Indabas. The Indabas are a series of discussions on important topics with individuals often working behind the scenes on important issues of international economic law relating to Africa and the Global South. Afronomicslaw videos are also available on our youtube channel.

Recent videos

• Video: Afronomicslaw 33rd Guest Lecture: The Making of You: Navigating Various Legal Career Pathways for Early Career Lawyers
• FfD4 3rd Preparatory Committee Session-New York Participation: AfSDJN intervention on the Zero Draft section on Systemic Issues, specifically paragraph 56 on Capital Account Management and Financial Regulation
• IMF Quota Reforms: Is the appointment of a Third Executive Director for Sub-Saharan Africa a game changer?
• AfronomicsLaw Indaba Episode 7: The 2022 Zimbabwe Coalition of Debt & Development (ZIMCODD) Case Against The Minister of Finance & Economic Development
• Inaugural Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Conference: Critical and Contextual Perspectives to International Economic Law: Amplifying the Voices of African Students and Early-career Researchers

The News and Events category publishes the latest News and Events relating to  International Economic Law relating to Africa and the Global South. Every week, Afronomicslaw.org receive the News and Events in their e-mail accounts. The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law. News and Events with a Global South focus are also often included.

Recent news and events

• News: 06.27.2025
• Afronomicslaw Quarterly Report Launch: African Subnational Governments and the Proliferation of Climate Finance Instruments
• 35th Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture - Climate Risks, Finance and Regulation in Africa
• News: 06.20.2025
• Deadline Extension - Call for Applications: Afronomicslaw Masterclass on Climate Finance, the Green Transition, and Sovereign Debt – Accra, Ghana

The Academic Forum is an inclusive and accessible forum that brings together undergraduate and graduate students as well as early career researchers from across the world interested in international economic law issues as they relate to Africa and the Global South. Its goals are to encourage and build core research skills in teaching, research, theory, methods and writing; developing content for Afronomicslaw.org and where possible to encourage authors to submit to the African Journal of International Economic Law; holding workshops and masterclasses on core research skills in teaching, research, theory, methods and writing; and organizing annual poster/essay competitions on international economic law issues. View the current Academic Forum Leadership here. 

Recent articles

• 34th Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series - The Racialized Epistemology of International Law: From White Ignorance to Black Dignity
• Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Spotlight Series: Khalil Badbess
• Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Spotlight Series: Grace Zawadi Walioli
• 2nd Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Conference
• Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series: Latest on the U.S. Fight Over 'Digital Trade': Implications for the AfCFTA Digital Protocol

The Repository contains cases, documents, bibliographies and materials on International Economic Law relating to Africa and the Global South with a view to making these materials easily and freely accessible. At the moment, the repository contains cases from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (COMESA), Court of Justice cases as well as an extensive summary of Africa's regional and sub-regional international economic regimes.  

Afronomicslaw.org invites our readers to contribute towards building this repository by proposing and submitting bibliographies particularly of materials of international economic law and international law that concern and relate to Africa and the Global South. The justifications for this repository include making these materials easily accessible and available especially in resource constrained environments. In addition, the repository is consistent with a major Afronomicslaw.org goals of: (i) centering and amplifying the scholarship that is excluded in the canon of international law in the most widely read publications; and (ii), producing content to overcome barriers to access such as cost of printed materials, paywalls and stringent intellectual property rights protections.

Recent articles

• Afronomicslaw Sovereign Debt Quarterly Brief, No. 4: Debt-for-Nature-Swaps: Fit for Africa?
• Afronomicslaw Sovereign Debt Quarterly Brief, No. 3: Sovereign Debt as Subordination to Global Finance
• Afronomicslaw Sovereign Debt Quarterly Brief, No. 2 of 2025: The Impact of IMF - Recommended Consumption Tax Policy on Africa's Rising Public Debt Levels
• Afronomicslaw Sovereign Debt Quarterly Brief, No. 1 of 2025: The Limits of Carbon Markets as a Solution to the Climate Crisis
• In the Matter of the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC: Eugenia Wanjiru Gikonyo v The Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya