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
- Ninety Eight Sovereign Debt News Update: The Inaugural Africa Climate Summit in Retrospect: Climate Financing, but at What Cost?
- Ninety Seventh Sovereign Debt News Update: Carbon Credit Deal to Potentially result in Liberia Conceding 10% of its Territory to a UAE Firm
- Ninety Sixth Sovereign Debt News Update: Gabon’s Debt-For-Nature Swap: Some Critical Reflections
- Ninety Fifth Sovereign Debt News Update: African Development Bank and United Nations Environment Programme Partner to Drive Biodiversity Finance in Africa
- Ninety Fourth Sovereign Debt News Update: Kenya breaches its Debt Ceiling, anchors its Debt to GDP
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
- Symposium Introduction: The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Reform and Developing Countries
- Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories and Practice, D.O. Oriahkogha and A.I. Olubiyi (Benin City: Paclerd Press, 2023)
- The Effect of Recent Coups in Africa on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
- Symposium Introduction: The 2023 Climate Change Advisory Opinions & the Global South
- Book Review: “Populism and Antitrust: The Illiberal Influence of populist Government on the Competition Law System.” (2022) Cambridge University Press; Cambridge-Maciej Bernatt
The African Journal of International Economic Law, (AfJIEL) is the peer review journal of record on international economic law issues relating to Africa and the Global South. The AfJIEL is an open access journal published with the support of Sheria Publishing House – a publishing house committed to providing high quality, affordable and accessible materials on African and Third World scholarship and practice. The AfJIEL publishes articles on international economic law on and about Africa and the Third World.
Releases
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
- 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
- Afronomicslaw (Southern Africa) Academic Forum Information Session
- Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series: International Law and (the Critique of) Political Economy
- Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series: The Sovereign Alien: History, TWAIL, and International Economic Law
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
- Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Business and Human Rights in Africa”
- Consultancy Opportunity: Economic Commission for Africa and Africa Trade Policy Centre - Trade and Environment Consultant
- Registration now open: International Law Weekend 2023 - Early-bird discount ends September 10
- Afronomicslaw Book Launch Event: Transforming Climate Finance in an Era of Sovereign Debt Distress, James T. Gathii, Adebayo Majekolagbe, and Nona Tamale, Eds.
- NEWS: 08.03.2023
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
- Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series: Community values and their role in shaping digital trade rules for the AfCFTA Digital Protocol
- Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series: Issues Linked to the Recovery of Proceeds of Corruption and Stolen Assets
- Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Guest Lecture Series: The EAC - Between Elitism and People-Centredness
- Call for Applications: Scholarship Opportunities for Afronomicslaw Academic Forum Members or Contributor to attend the 2023 Global Trade Academy by Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law
- 27th Academic Forum Guest Lecture - Purpose in International Economics Law – Searching Beyond the Text
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
- New Book: Transforming Climate Finance in an Era of Sovereign Debt Distress, James T. Gathii, Adebayo Majekolagbe, and Nona Tamale, Eds. (Free Access)
- New Book: How to Reform the Global Debt and Financial Architecture Edited by James T. Gathii (Free Access)
- The African Continental Free Trade Area Rules of Origin Manual (July 2022)
- Research Questionnaire - Registry and Legal Division of the African Court
- Open Access Book Publication: Taking a Common Concern Approach to Economic Inequality Implications for (Cooperative) Sovereignty over Corporate Taxation by Alexander D. Beyleveld