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Featured Essay
Ghosts in the Courtroom: Why Are African Courts Still Wearing 18th-Century English Wigs?
Beyond Imperial Statutes: Reimagining Equity in Post-Colonial Jurisprudence In my last piece, I talked about how we were dealt a bad hand of cards and why. But now that we’ve diagnosed the problem, we need to move toward solutions. Decoding… Read the essay →
From the Docket
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Patented Seeds, Stolen Soil: The Legal Clashes Reshaping African Farming
Every morning, a farmer wakes up to a question more frightening than drought: Is this still my land? Land grabbing is legally defined as the unauthorised,…
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The Ink We Didn’t Spill
Many African nations that were colonised never got a chance to pick their own cards from the deck. That alone would be difficult enough, but…
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Africa Isn’t Failing to Emerge: It’s Being Judged by the Wrong Rules
The Jurisprudence of Capital: Why Western Market Models Fail in African Realities Fifty years from now, will economists still be calling Africa an “emerging market”…
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A note From the editors
The Continental Docket was built on a simple shared conviction: that identity, law, and belonging are inseparable. We come to that conviction from different directions,…
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Ghosts in the Courtroom: Why Are African Courts Still Wearing 18th-Century English Wigs?
Beyond Imperial Statutes: Reimagining Equity in Post-Colonial Jurisprudence In my last piece, I talked about how we were dealt a bad hand of cards and…
