Ending Africa's Energy Deficit and the Law Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa

by Omorogbe, Yinka; Ordor, Ada

• ISBN13: 9780198819837
• ISBN10: 0198819838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-04-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Yinka Omorogbe, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Edo State, Nigeria,Ada Ordor, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town

Professor Omorogbe started her legal career as a legal practitioner in the law firm of Solomon Asemota & Co. in 1980 and later joined the Faculty of Law, University of Benin as a lecturer. She moved to the University of Lagos as a Senior lecturer, where she remained until her appointment as a professor of law of the University of Ibadan. She was Dean of the Faculty of Law and was appointed as Secretary to the Corporation and Legal Adviser of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. She is currently a research professor at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Abuja, Nigeria. Prof Omorogbe has several publications, including books, monographs, book chapters, and articles in leading international journals. She is also a regular speaker at workshops and conferences internationally and within Nigeria.


Professor Ordor completed an LLB (Hons) at the University of Jos, was admitted to the Nigerian bar, and practised in the law office of Dr. Ibik in Enugu. She then worked as a Programme Officer in two non-profits, while studying the LLM at the University of Nigeria. She was appointed to a teaching position at the Nigerian Law School, awarded a PhD at the University of Cape Town, and took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Development and Labour Law, UCT. She has held visiting fellowships at the African Gender Institute, UCT, the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Centre for Civil Society Studies, and is a 2009 international fellowship alumna of the American Association of University Women. She was appointed Director of the newly established Centre for Comparative Law in Africa.

Table of Contents

1. Universal Access to Modern Energy Services: The Centrality of the Law, Yinka Omorogbe
2. Achieving Access to Modern Energy Services: A Study of Legal Strategies, Adrian J. Bradbrook
3. Disadvantage, Fairness and Power Crises in Africa: A Focused Look at Energy Justice, Hanri Mostert and Heleen van Niekerk
4. Regulation as a Catalyst for the Electrification of Africa, Hugh Corder and Terhemen Andzenge
5. Financing Energy Access in Africa, Peter Kayode Oniemola and Jane Ezirigwe
6. Legal Integration in Africa and the Approach to Energy Issues: Which Way Forward?, Salvatore Mancuso
7. Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Energy Services in Africa: Implications for Development, Adebambo Adewopo, Tobias Schonwetter, and Helen Chuma-Okoro
8. Towards Adopting an Appropriate Dispute Resolution Mechanism to Promote Investments to Enhance Energy Access in Africa, Paul Obo Idornigie
9. A Gender Aware Approach to Legal and Policy Strategies for Achieving Access to Modern Energy Services in Sub-Saharan Africa, Judith Gardam
10. Energy, Disability, and the Law in Africa, Azizat O. Amoloye-Adebayo and Nnenna Joy Eboh
11. The Denial of Sustainable Energy as a Violation of Child Rights, Ibe Okegbe Ifeakandu
12. Promoting Renewable Energy in African Countries: An Outline of Fiscal and Financial Incentives in South Africa and Nigeria, Jan Glazewski, Lee-Ann Steenkamp, and Peter Kayode Oniemola
13. The Impact of the Water-Energy Nexus in Realising Sustainable Access to Water and Energy, Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe and Cheri-Leigh Young
14. Energy Struggles and City Life in Africa, Kabiru K. Salami and Adigun A.B. Agbaje
15. South Africa's Minerals-Energy Complex: Flows, Regulation, Governance, and Policing, Jan Froestad, Martin Nokleberg, Clifford Shearing, and Hilton Trollip
16. Improving Electricity Access Through Policy Reform: A Theoretical Statement on Legal Reform in Nigeria's Power Sector, Sam Amadi
17. Achieving Effective Law and Policy Frameworks for Access to Sustainable Energy in Africa - A Multidimensional Effort, Yinka Omorogbe and Ada Okoye Ordor