Perspectives on Africa's Legal Future
Thought leadership from practitioners — on African legal systems, investment negotiations, community rights, and the institutional reforms shaping the continent's trajectory.
The DRC's 5% Employee Equity Mandate: A Test Case for African Local Content
For years, Article 71 bis of the DRC's Mining Code sat on the books with limited effect. A January 2026 ministerial directive has changed that — making employee equity a live compliance obligation with a hard deadline.
Read Article →FPIC as a Contract: Drafting Free, Prior and Informed Consent into Mining and Infrastructure Deals
FPIC appears in ILO Convention 169, the UNDRIP, IFC Performance Standards, and countless ESG disclosures. What it rarely appears in is the actual contract. This piece is about closing that gap.
Read Article →Ghana Rewrites Its Investment Rules: What the GIPA Bill Actually Changes
Ghana's Parliament has passed the GIPA Bill, repealing Act 865 in its entirety. This is not a technical amendment — it changes the institutional mandate, relaxes barriers, and creates new mechanisms.
Read Article →Tanzania's Blockchain Sandbox — What It Means for Investors and Governments
The Bank of Tanzania has approved the continent's first stablecoin sandbox pilot. Here is what investors, governments, and legal practitioners need to understand about the framework — and what it still leaves open.
Read Article →AI and the African Law Firm — The Hallucination Problem Is Already Here
As AI hallucination incidents exceed 1,000 documented court decisions globally, African law firms face a harder version of a problem the profession has not yet solved.
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