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AFRICA (Broad Entry)

See: JuriBurkina (Center for Legal Information in East Africa),   SAFLII (The Southern African Legal Information Institute), Zambia (ZamLII).

African International Courts and Tribunals
This website provides a centralized source for scholars, practitioners and laypersons working in or on the Continent and a reference to the work of these courts and tribunals for others studying the global phenomenon.

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Established by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which came into force on 21 October 1986 after its adoption in Nairobi (Kenya) in 1981 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

DataCenta/Law in Ghana
Contains Statutes, Law Reports, legal journals, and updates to Acts of the 4th Republic, Business and Financial Laws of Ghana, Judgments of the Superior Courts, and Legislative Instruments. IP access.

JUTASTAT
Fee-based database. The library's subscription allows access to  the following publications: The Constitutional Library; English Reports 1220 – 1865 ; Juta’s Daily Law Reports ; S A Law Reports 1947 to date; Index & Ann. to the SA Law Reports ; Digest of S A Law; S A Statutes & Regulations ; S A Appellate Division; S A Environmental Legislation ; S A Criminal Law Reports ;  S A Tax Library; Case Law of Zimbabwe ; Statutes of Zimbabwe; Tanzania Law Reports; Zambia Law Reports ; Namibian Law Reports; Laws of Jamaica.  For password information please, contact the Reference Librarian.

Lawafrica.com
A fee-based database containing LawAfrica Law Reports. The website gathers cases from High Court of Kenya, the Kenyan Court of Appeal, the Industrial Court of Kenya, the Supreme Court of Uganda, the High Court of Uganda, the COMESA Court of Justice  for East Africa from Lusaka which adjudicates on matters of a commercial court involving parties domiciled in countries that are members of the COMESA trading block, and the Court of Appeal from Tanzania (1975-). The library also has a CD-ROM with East Africa Law Reports (2000-) and All England Law Reports (1936-2002). For password information please, contact the Reference Librarian.

African Union (AU) former Organization of African Unity (OAU)
African Union Websites and Documents.

Databases dedicated to the law of French-speaking African countries
The correct way to search is using "droit afrique noire francophone".

Algeria: LexAlgeria  (Le Portail du droit Algérien)
Contains legislation, codes, jurisprudence, and la doctrine.  Very selective. The database is under construction. Only in French.

Afrilex
An electronic journal in French and offering for free only the table of contents focused on African legal issues. One of its links brings to the Journal of African Law published by Oxford Press. Full-text articles comment on laws, and cases from African countries. The main portal to African information is Habari.

ACCPUF 
Association des cours constitutionnelles partageant l'usage du francais. The term "francophone" is not politically correct in some countries, so instead use the periphrases "sharing the use of French as language". ACCPUF contains information on constitutional law, such as Case law, Acts, Constitutions, Rules of Procedure, etc.

CEAN
Centre d'etudes d'afrique noire contains current information, country by country.

DIAM  
Documentation institutionnelle en Afrique et dans le monde is a fee-based CD-ROM offering  information and student papers on the law of French-speaking countries.

Lex Africana
A portal, built in the great French law library Cujas.  

OHADA Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa
Contains related documents to the treaty, codes, and national jurisprudence in French. There is a growing English interface. Se the Treaty's Overview in English.

For "Francophonie" in general:

1) Look at the "Agence universitaire de la francophonie"  where you find  the Conference internationale des facultes de droit ayant en commun l'usage du francais (CIFDUF)

2) Organisation internationale de la Francophonie OIF

3) Droit francophone est le portail de diffusion libre du droit de l'Organisation internationale de la francophonie.

Afrikinfo.com
It contains laws and government documents for BENIN (West Africa) only in French. Access is free for viewing but the documents themselves are not.

Databases dedicated to the law of English-speaking African countries

LexisNexis Quicklaw  
Fee-based database. NYU Law School students and faculty can get passwords from the Access Law School Faculty page and get instructions for Online Registration Procedure.  It  contains court decisions from South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, with additional courts in preparation.

Collections of domestic laws

For copyright laws, human rights issues, commercial laws, investment laws, labor laws, constitutional laws, etc of different African countries please, look under international organizations, gateways to agencies focusing on specific subjects such as the World Bank database,  subject-oriented databases, and foreign-databases collections.  

Guides:
Algerian Law Guide by Dahmène Touchent
Botswana’s Legal System and Legal Research by Lubabalo Booi
Researching Cameroonian Law by Charles Manga Fombad
Researching Ghanaian Law by Victor Essien
An Overview of the Egyptian Legal System and Legal Research by Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab
Guide to Legal Research in Mali by Dahmène Touchent
Guide to the Morocco Legal System by Dahmène Touchent
Guide to Nigeria by Yemisi Dina, John Akintayo & Funke Ekundayo
Rwanda's Legal System and Legal Materials by Eunice Musiime
Overview of the Sudanese Legal System and Legal Research by Sharanjeet Parmar
Sierra Leone Legal System and Legal Research by Hanatu Kabbah
Researching South African Law by Amanda Barratt and Pamela Snyman
Guide to the Tunisian Legal System by Dahmène Touchent 
Guide to Tanzanian Legal System and Legal Research by Bahame Tom Nyanduga and Christabel Manning
Uganda's Legal System and Legal Sector by Brenda Mahoro
The Law in Zimbabwe by Otto Saki and Tatenda Chiware