All over the developing world, matters are in a state of flux. Many of the political institutions with which the independent nations of Africa entered the post-independence era have been changed. In many of these states, the story run the same course: independence ushered in a brief period of “constitutional government’ modelled on the governmental institutions of the imperial country…
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) as they are known worldwide have become the mode by which nations with a troubled past are seeking to come to terms with their past, and make amends for past misdeeds done in the name of the state, to fellow citizens. This trend has been set by developments in the field of human rights occasioned by the rise in Natural Law philosophies and the re-…