African Presidentialism: A Comparison of the “Executive” Under the Constitutions of the Federation of Nigeria, the Federal Republics of the Congo and Cameroon, and the Republics of Ghana, Chad, Congo and the Entente

Abstract

The recent proliferation of independent African nations with varying legal and governmental backgrounds has given comparativists an unprecedented amount of subject matter which has already resulted in a number of comparative studies.2 So far, however, there is a dearth of material concerning the varied and already numerous constitutions of the new states.