« Undemocratic Constitution in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where several issues of poverty and exclusion are due to the fact that people do not have the effective capability to defend their rights and guide their futures through free choice their leaders, democratic principles are not a luxury. Yet every African country has a constitution that the small Larousse defines as "the set of fundamental laws that establish the form of government, regulate the relations between rulers and ruled and determine the organization of public authorities". What then is the Constitution Saharan Africa if African countries have applied but other than that it provides? Our attempt to answer this difficult question raises two hypotheses around which structure the text »
"Many African Constitutions are revised after the nineties, by the need for adaptation of the Basic Law to the new political order required by the international community. Indeed, if the democracies settle in this continent, national constitutions formerly built on the basis of single parties, became obsolete and required a result, adjustments to the new rules of the political game and the management of public affairs. However, the first constitutional reforms of this continent, while integrating the principles of democracy, were mainly intended to extend the duration and the number of mandates of African presidents already in office during the one-party rule. It was today the case in Congo Brazzaville where the draft constitution whose Brazzaville authorities announced Tuesday the adoption at the end of Sunday's referendum is challenged to bring in a new Congo Republic and allows the president Denis Sassou Nguesso to run for a third term in 2016. Constitutional referendum in ...