Education Law, Strategic Policy and Sustainable Development in Africa

Chapter One- IntroductionBy Jerusa Ali, W.O. Egbewole, and T.E. Kleven 
Chapter Two- Issues of human right to basic education and equality of educational opportunity in Africa: A case study of Nigeria By Ngozi Chuma Umeh
Chapter Three- Adoption of a human rights approach to budgeting as a step to realise the right to education in African countriesBy Ashwanee Budoo
Chapter Four- Mainstreaming Human Rights Education: Africa and the Challenge of a General Jurisprudence towards Sustainable DevelopmentBy Muhtar Adeiza Etudaiye and Mohammed Enesi Etudaiye
Chapter Five- Craving for the Message but shooting the Messenger: RBA to teacher Welfare and Quality in Basic Education in NigeriaBy A.C. Onuora-Oguno
Chapter Six- The Legal Framework for Achieving the Goal of 'Education for all' in Africa: A Case Study of the Vulnerable Students in the Nigerian Borstal InstitutionsBy Abdulraheem-Mustapha Mariam Adepeju
Chapter Seven- Right to Inclusive Development of the Girl Child in AfricaBy Olanike Adelakun-Odewale
Chapter Eight- The African Union's Agenda 2063: Education and its RealisationBy Michael Addaney 
Chapter Nine- The Impact of Education Systems on our Social economic Realities, Uganda as a case studyBy Sylvia Ivy Tayebwa
Chapter Ten- African Union Agenda 2063: Aspiring for Justice and the Rule of Law in LiberiaBy Veronica Fynn Bruey
Chapter Eleven- The African Dream: Attitudes and Prejudices in African SchoolsBy David Nnanna Chukwukadibia Ikpo
Chapter Twelve- Realising maternal and child health through curbing the barriers for accessing basic education: Human rights based options for AfricaBy Solomon Tekle Abegaz

Azubike C Onuora-Oguno is Solicitor and Advocate of the Nigerian Supreme Court. He is passionate about child's rights, with particular focus on the right to basic education, and has written widely on education, girl child rights and other areas of law. He is a former clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court.


Wahab O Egbewole is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Prof. Egbewole is an expert of judicial studies in Nigeria, a member of the America Society of International Law, Law and Society of America, Nigeria Bar Association and the International Bar Association.


Thomas E Kleven is Professor of Law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, USA. His recent book, Equitable Sharing, posits that a principle of equitable sharing is central to what it means to be a democratic society.