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4 Transnat'l Hum. Rts. Rev. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/tranhurrv4 and id is 1 raw text is: CANADIAN-AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENTS - A LITERATURE REVIEW AND AN AGENDA FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: AN INTRODUCTION Obiora Chinedu Okafor* Background and Objectives For several decades, Canada and Canadians have been significantly involved in supporting pro- human rights struggles and efforts on the Anglophone Africa. For example, Canada and Canadians have funded or supported many constitution-reform, electoral reform, human rights, judicial strengthening, institution building, democratization, developmental and poverty alleviation efforts and struggles in that region. For their own part, African countries and peoples have also engaged to a significant extent with Canada and Canadians in regard to these and similar issues. These engagements, the anecdotal evidence suggests, have played an important role in Anglophone Africa. Yet, the nature, attainments, problems, and prospects of such Canadian/Anglophone African human rights engagements have not been as rigorously studied and widely understood in the scholarly (as opposed to merely the NGO and government) literature as might be expected. The state of systematic knowledge in this area is thus relatively inadequate. This has been so despite the growing and abiding Canadian interest in Anglophone African affairs. It is against this background that an international conference around the theme Canadian-African Human Rights Engagements: A Literature Review and an Agenda for Research was convened at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada, from the 8th to the 10 of December 2016. The overall goal of this scholarly conference was: to * Professor and York Research in International and Transnational Legal Studies (Senior Tier), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. The author is grateful to Wudassie Tamrat, JD student at the Osgoode Hall Law School, for her excellent assistance in the editing of this special themed volume.

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