Berihun Adugna Gebeye is a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Previously, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Gottingen and held visiting fellowships at Columbia Law School and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford. He taught comparative constitutional law and politics at the Central European University, University of Yangon, and the University of Gottingen. He holds degrees in law, human rights, and comparative constitutional law, and has extensively published in these fields with a focus on Africa.

• Introduction Part I Theory 1: Legal Syncretism as a Theoretical Framework for African Constitutionalism 2: The Transformation of African Constitutionalism 3: The Design and Practice of African Constitutionalism Part II Case Studies 4: Federalism 5: The Executive 6: Women's Constitutional Rights Part III Future Application 7: The Future of African Constitutional Design and Practice Conclusion

Above all, for anybody seriously interested in a deeper understanding of the development, character, and predicaments of African constitutionalism, this book is not only essential but indispensable reading.

Berihun Adugna Gebeye is a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Previously, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Gottingen and held visiting fellowships at Columbia Law School and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford. He taught comparative constitutional law and politics at the Central European University, University of Yangon, and the University of Gottingen. He holds degrees in law, human rights, and comparative constitutional law, and has extensively published in these fields with a focus on Africa.

• Introduction Part I Theory 1: Legal Syncretism as a Theoretical Framework for African Constitutionalism 2: The Transformation of African Constitutionalism 3: The Design and Practice of African Constitutionalism Part II Case Studies 4: Federalism 5: The Executive 6: Women's Constitutional Rights Part III Future Application 7: The Future of African Constitutional Design and Practice Conclusion

Above all, for anybody seriously interested in a deeper understanding of the development, character, and predicaments of African constitutionalism, this book is not only essential but indispensable reading.

Berihun Adugna Gebeye is a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Previously, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Gottingen and held visiting fellowships at Columbia Law School and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford. He taught comparative constitutional law and politics at the Central European University, University of Yangon, and the University of Gottingen. He holds degrees in law, human rights, and comparative constitutional law, and has extensively published in these fields with a focus on Africa.

• Introduction Part I Theory 1: Legal Syncretism as a Theoretical Framework for African Constitutionalism 2: The Transformation of African Constitutionalism 3: The Design and Practice of African Constitutionalism Part II Case Studies 4: Federalism 5: The Executive 6: Women's Constitutional Rights Part III Future Application 7: The Future of African Constitutional Design and Practice Conclusion

Above all, for anybody seriously interested in a deeper understanding of the development, character, and predicaments of African constitutionalism, this book is not only essential but indispensable reading.