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A Fresh Start for Africa? New African Constitutional Perspectives for the 1990s

This seems a particularly appropriate time to devote a double issue of the Journal to one topic—constitutional law. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, there is blowing a wind of political change comparable with that identified by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in his famous speech to the South African parliament in Cape Town on 3 February, 1960. The source of that wind was African national consciousness which was impelling the process of decolonisation: in that year, 1960, most of the francophone African states discussed by Reyntjens and Nigeria became independent. By 1968, the process wa…