AFRICAN UNION LAW: THE EMERGENCE OF A SUI GENERIS LEGAL ORDER WRITTEN BY OLUFEMI AMAO ROUTLEDGE (LONDON AND NEW YORK)

Robert Home*

INTRODUCTION

The African Union (AU), since its Constitutive Act in 2000, has grown from an initial 27 member states to now include all 55 countries on the African continent. The initiative came from the late President Gaddafi of Libya – an “unlikely figure”, according to Amao, p. 16 – who called for Africa to create a robust international body at an “extraordinary summit” of the former Organization for African Union (OAU), held in his home town of Sirte in 1999. The last state to join, or rather rejoin – since it had split from the former OAU – was Morocco, in 2017.

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v10i2.10

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* Robert Home, MA PhD MRTPI Emeritus Professor in Land Management, Anglia Ruskin University (UK). Email Robert.home@anglia.ac.uk.

ELUSIVE SEARCH FOR NATION NIGERIA WRITTEN BY AMBASSADOR AARE AFE BABALOLA AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY PRESS (ADO EKITI, 2019), ISBN: 978-978-56719-1-9

Damilola S. Olawuyi, PhD*1


INTRODUCTION

It was a great pleasure and honour for me to read through the 340-page manuscript of the book entitled the Elusive Search for Nation Nigeria, written by a prolific author, people’s lawyer, astute farmer, philanthropist, relentless human rights crusader, cerebral legal scholar, Professor of the Practice of Law, a global citizen, and the Aare Bamofin of the Universe, Ambassador Aare Emmanuel Afe Babalola. The book is about the big issue of the historical and contemporary threats facing the peace, unity and progress of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is no gainsaying that Nigeria is currently at a political, economic, social, and developmental crossroads. Poverty is at an alarming rate, several of our road, electricity, water, aviation and other infrastructure are time-worn, our educational systems keep nose diving, religious and ethnic intolerance are surging; criminality, insecurity,terrorism and kidnappings are at alarming levels. The future of the nation has never been so uncertain.

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v10i2.9

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1* LL.M (Calgary), LL.M (Harvard), PhD (Oxford), Professor of Law and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti. Email: dsolawuyi@abuad.edu.ng

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL LAW: READINGS ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND THE LAW IN NIGERIA

Yemi Akinseye-George, SAN, FCIArb.*

OVERVIEW

The book, Food and Agricultural Law is Nigeria’s first authoritative book publication on food, agriculture and renewable energy. In reviewing this book, the ultimate aim is to examine the key arguments and fundamental assumptions of the book and to evaluate whether it significantly advances knowledge in this unique and important area of law in Nigeria. After a painstaking review and analyses of this book, it is evident that the book delivers more than it promised. This theory-laden, analytical and expository publication offers excellent wealth of materials and knowledge on food, agriculture and renewable energy. The book will be relevant for a long time to come.

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* Professor of Law, Legal Practitioner, Consultant and Head, Department of Public and International Law, Nasarawa State University, Keffi and Visiting Professor, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti.

CLIMATE CHANGE, FORCED MIGRATION, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW A book by Jane McAdam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Demola Okeowo*

OVERVIEW

The book Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law is an authoritative compendium of the real issues in discourse on climate change related movement and its implications in international law. Prior to reading this book, I had read a lot of articles and stories on blogs, which have exaggerated the issue of ‘climate change refugees’. Some of the articles went to the extent of saying that some States will in fact disappear completely at the end of a given time if nothing drastic is done about climate change.1 Professor McAdam describes these authors as ‘alarmists’.2

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* LL.B, BL (Nigeria), LL.M (Groningen, The Netherlands), LL.M (Queen’s, Canada), Doctoral Student, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada. I am grateful to Professor Benjamin Richardson of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada who recommended the book under review to me

1 Ajay Chhibber, “Statements at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting” UNDP Cairns Convention Centre, (6 August, 2009).

2 Jane McAdam, Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) 26.