Introduction

Abstract

This book aims to present legal and policy perspectives on the realisation of the right to education as envisioned by and aspired to in the African Union social and economic development initiative known as Agenda 2063 (Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want‚ The African Union Commission‚ Addis Ababa‚ 2016). In exploring the central role of education law and policy in achieving the goals of Agenda 2063 , it draws on interdisciplinary case studies from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, and Liberia written by scholars and activists from Ethiopia, South Africa, Mauritius, Nigeria, and Ghana. The authors shift the focus away from the role of regional institutions and bodies in the implementation of Agenda 2063 by examining state legal and policy obligations under regional and international human rights law as they relate to social development. The human rights bearing subjects—whether the malnourished girl child unable to attend secondary school, or the male youth incarcerated in a borstal school, or the undercompensated primary school teacher—are the central figures of this uniquely African contribution to the understanding of the right to education.