Africa: The constitutional order in question

Africa: The constitutional order in question
No 278, 2024/2 - pages
Pages 7 to 8

Editorial

By Jean du Bois de Gaudusson
Pages 9 to 10

A foreword in three voices

By Jean du Bois de Gaudusson, Christine Desouches, Bonaventure Mvé Ondo
Pages 11 to 14

The constitutional order: A challenge, a trap, an opportunity

By Jean du Bois de Gaudusson
Pages 15 to 20

The constitutional order and the international community: From symbol to mirage?

By Christine Desouches
Pages 21 to 26

Thinking about constitutions

By Bonaventure Mvé Ondo
Pages 27 to 54

International organizations and constitutional order in Africa

By Gérard Aïvo
Pages 55 to 76

African constitutional courts and the return to the constitutional order: The electoral dimension

By Jean-Louis Atangana Amougou
Pages 77 to 98

Unconstitutional dynamics in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa: Moving beyond an idealized vision of the constitutional order—The case of presidential successions in Togo and Senegal

By Arnold Martial Ateba
Pages 99 to 116

The transitional constitutional order in Africa: Case studies from French-speaking sub-Saharan African states

By Jean Mermoz Bikoro
Pages 117 to 135

Deconstructing and rebuilding the constitutional order in Gabon (2023–2024)

By Stéphane Bolle
Pages 137 to 154

The army’s constitutional ordinances: An attempt at theoretical reflection on a complex legal category

By Ghislain Bombela Mosoua
Pages 155 to 172

The contribution of the Constitutional Court to the emergence of a new constitutional order in Morocco

By El Maamoun Fikri
Pages 173 to 186

Transitional law in question(s)

By Fabrice Hourquebie
Pages 187 to 208

Coups d’état and the process of restoring constitutional order in Africa

By Alain Itoula Kifoumba
Pages 209 to 226

The sovereignty of the Sahelian state tested by the security challenge: The case of Burkina Faso

By Augustin Loada
Pages 227 to 246

The outbreak of violence as a sign of the perversion of the political system: From episodic to chronic violence in pluralist democracies

By Slobodan Milacic
Pages 247 to 266

Transitional institutions

By Éric M. Ngango Youmbi
Pages 267 to 292

Grasping the constitutional order through instruments: ECOWAS’s democracy policy

By Abdoul Karim Saidou
Pages 293 to 301

Brief considerations on the figures of constitutional order in Africa

By Luc Sindjoun
Pages 303 to 327

In search of a democratic constitutional order in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa

By Serge François Sobze
Pages 329 to 329

This analysis, grounded in the exegesis and sociology of norms, advocates for transitioning the African constitutional order from a dormant or weakened state to a revitalized and dynamic one.

By Robert Dossou
Pages 331 to 339

Conclusion

By Pierre Jacquemot
Pages 340 to 341

Reviews

By Yves Gounin
Pages 342 to 346

Xavier Aurégan, Chine, puissance africaine : Géopolitique des relations sino-africaines, Paris, Armand Colin, 2024

By Bonaventure Mvé Ondo
Pages 347 to 349

Michel Cahen, Colonialité. Plaidoyer pour la précision d’un concept, Karthala, Coll. Disputation, 2024

By Jean-Pierre Listre
Pages 350 to 352

George Courade, « Comme le fleuve, la vérité se perd dans le désert », Faire de la recherche dans les Afriques en décolonisation, Les Indes savantes, 2023, 152 p.

By Jean-Bernard Véron
Pages 353 to 360

Joseph Pascal Mbaha, Arman Leka Essomba and Paul Tchawa (eds.), Territoires, pluralisme identitaire et coexistence communautaire en Afrique – (Dynamique de conflits et imaginaires de l’espace), L’Harmattan, coll. Etudes africaines, sociologie, 2024

By Marc Raffinot
Pages 361 to 362

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, L’enchevêtrement des crises au Sahel, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Karthala, Collection Disputatio, 2023

By Michel Bampély
Pages 363 to 367

Bonacci Giulia, Delmas Adrien, Argyriadis Kali, Cuba and Africa, 1959–1994: Writing an Alternative Atlantic History, Wits University Press, 2020

By Gilles Lainé
Pages 368 to 371

Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla, De la démocratie en Françafrique, une histoire de l’impérialisme électoral, La Découverte, 2024

By Rajae Zine El Abidine