Business and Human Rights Law and Practice in Africa

Edited by Damilola S. Olawuyi, Professor of Law and UNESCO Chair in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar, Chancellor's Fellow and Director, Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institute), Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria and Independent Expert of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Oyeniyi Abe, Lecturer, The Law School, Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield, UK and Senior Research Fellow, OGEES Institute, Afe Babalola University, Nigeria

This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of good-fit and home-grown approaches for advancing business and human rights norms across Africa. It explores the latest developments in law, regulations, policies, and governance structures across the continent, focusing on key legal innovations in response to human rights impacts of business operations and activities.

‘This edited volume is a solid and welcome intervention in the highly topical and fast-growing literature on business and human rights more generally, and as it concerns Africa – a continent on which the negative impacts of the activities of large business corporations has been hard felt for centuries now. Professors Olawuyi and Abe have conceptualized and put together a very impressive, seventeen chapter, multidisciplinary, well-researched and well-written book, with a highly developed and painstakingly developed overarching scholarly apparatus. The book’s socio-legal interrogation of the processes that create, and harms that result from, what its editors appositely refer to as “a cultural politics of corporate irresponsibility” is well integrated into its accompanying deep dive into “the complex legal, ethical and business questions” that are intimately connected to that phenomenon. Readers from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds will surely find the book’s conceptual depth and broad coverage as impressive, relevant and useful, as its practical utility in a variety of professional contexts.’
– Obiora C. Okafor, UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity

‘This volume provides much-needed African perspectives on the business and human rights landscape. Such work should help in promoting business respect for human rights and corporate acceptability in different world regions.’
– Surya Deva, Macquarie Law School, Australia

“这及时的和我nnovative book provides a seminal analysis of the practical application of business and human rights norms in the African context. As African countries adopt legislation and guidelines aimed at addressing the impacts of business activities on human rights, a comprehensive analysis of such emerging laws, and by leading African scholars, has been long overdue. Covering key topics from institutions to legislation and governance, the in-depth and systematic approach of this book makes it a must-read for students, academics, practitioners, policy makers and business leaders in Africa and beyond.’
– Ilias Bantekas, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar