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43 N.C. J. Int'l L. 110 (2018)
Citizenship Laws and Political and Economic Participation in Africa

handle is hein.journals/ncjint43 and id is 504 raw text is: Citizenship Laws and Political and Economic Participation in Africa John Mukum Mbakuf I. Introduction ..................................111 A. Case Study: Zambia and the Case of Kenneth David Kaunda ...................... .....112 B. Case Study: C6te d'Ivoire and the Case of Alassane Ouattara................................117 II. How Not to Resolve a Constitutional Crisis: The 2016 Controversial Constitutional Referendum in C6te d'Ivoire and Citizenship ................... .....134 A. Introduction ........................ .....134 B. Ouattara and the New Constitution .............138 C. Ouattara and the Referendum on the New Constitution .............................143 D. Voluntary Acceptance and Respect for the Law: What is Its Relevance to C6te d'Ivoire? ..... .....145 III. Legitimacy and the Constitution: With Reference to the Ivorian Constitutional Exercise of 2016 .............152 A. Introduction ........................ .....152 B. The Constitution-Making Process and Legitimacy ....153 IV. Citizenship and the Mobility of Human Capital: The Development Imperative ...........................170 A. Introduction .............................170 B. Mobility of Human Resources: Introduction to Modem Nigeria ..................... .....173 C. Nigeria and the Modem Concept of Citizenship ........177 D. Citizenship in Nigeria: Way Forward ................188 t John Mukum Mbaku is a Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor of Economics & John S. Hinckley Research Fellow at Weber State University (Ogden, Utah, USA). He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., and an Attorney and Counselor at Law (licensed in the State of Utah). He received a J.D. degree and Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where he was Managing Editor of the Utah Environmental Law Review, and a Ph.D. (economics) from the University of Georgia. This article reflects only the present considerations and views of the author, which should not be attributed to either Weber State University or the Brookings Institution.