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“State and Non-State Violations of Religious Freedom and Implications for National Unity in Nigeria” by Dodeye Uduak Williams

Aug 5, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), August 2022, Politics, Religious Freedom, Williams, Dodeye Uduak

Picture by Faseeh Fawaz on Unsplash. Nigeria is home to about 250 ethnic groups and culturally diverse communities with different religious affiliations, who speak over 500 different languages. The three dominant ethnic groups are the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. Nigerians practice Christianity, Islam or an indigenous religion. The country is divided almost equally between the…

“Desmond Tutu and the Intersections Between Law and Religion” by Toyin Falola

Mar 1, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), Falola, Toyin, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Human Rights / Civil Rights, March 2022

Ubuntu: I am because you are, because we are. But beyond that, I am because I belong, and I have chosen to belong, to form a part of, participate in, and unite with others and their ideas and ideologies, despite the realistic existence of nuances and differences. The meaning of this word reflects perhaps the…

“Institutional Erasure: Legal Pluralism in Colonial Egypt” by Samy A. Ayoub

Feb 23, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), Ayoub, Samy A., February 2022, History

Legal pluralism, as practiced in Egypt in the 19th – 20th centuries, was made possible within institutional structures, procedural norms, and Islamic legal practice under Khedival rule. Islamic legal practice during Ottoman rule not only made other legal traditions accepted within a pluralist legal order, but also, it made them germane to how the system…

“Subjective Beliefs, Social Judgments, and Witch Killers” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Feb 8, 2021Canopy ForumConvictionAfrica (Geography), Cavedon, Matthew P., Criminal Law, February 2021, Indigenous Religious Traditions

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Subjective Beliefs, Social Judgments, and Witch Killers” Matthew P. Cavedon In a 1992 abortion decision, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, a plurality of the U.S. Supreme Court held: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and…

“Non-Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation” by Johan D. van der Vyver

Jul 2, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), Ethics, Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2020, Sex and Gender, van der Vyver, Johan D.

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels The judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, decided on June 15, 2020, is, to say the least, quite controversial. It relates to non-discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment practices and has been applauded by many who champion the legal protection…

“Sudan Criminalizes FGM” by Adrienne Phillips

Jun 12, 2020Canopy ForumConvictionAfrica (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, Islam, June 2020, Phillips, Adrienne

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Sudan Criminalizes FGM” Adrienne Phillips Sudan recently criminalized female genital mutilation (FGM). According to the United Nations, about 87 percent of Sudanese women between the ages of fourteen and forty-nine have undergone some form of FGM. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide, “more than 200 million…

“Church Burnings Across Ethiopia: A Signal of a State Struggling to Cope with Rapid Transition” by Bisrat Kebede

Apr 10, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), April 2020, Christianity, Kebede, Bisrat, Religious Freedom

Vijay Vinoth / Pexels In 2019 in early September, the Ethiopian government held an emergency meeting with leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to discuss the ongoing political and religious tension in the country. Since July 2018, thirty churches have been attacked across several regions in Ethiopia. More than half of those churches have burned to the…