Jewel Amoah

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine | UWI · Faculty of Law

This edited volume, the proceedings of a regional meeting of judicial officers held in Trinidad and Tobago, is intended to support members of the judiciary in furthering what the Hon. Mr Justice Peter Jamadar terms ‘Project Equality’ – the pursuit of securing equality for all in the administration of justice. Although not a panacea for all systemic...

In this Chapter, we reimagine a canonical case in the English speaking Caribbean, that of Minister of Home Affairs v Fisher. This Privy Council case on appeal from Bermuda, decided in 1979, is oft-cited for the notion that constitutions are sui generis instruments that call for principles of interpretation of their own. Fisher’s recommendation that...

Scholars and lawyers analyzing religion are generally careful to keep the world's major religions distinct from culture. But, historically, Western scholarship has tended to conflate African traditional religions with African culture. The unfortunate effect of this fusion has been to diminish the significance of the African belief systems - which i...

Using an analytical model that directly addresses the way in which the intersection of gender, race, age and culture impact upon the girl child's experience of the world, this paper presents GRACE as the representation of the African girl child. The argument is that in order to be effective, particular provisions in the Convention on the Rights of...

On Sunday, January 20, 2007, Tony Yengeni, former Chief Whip of South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), celebrated his early release from a four-year prison sentence by slaughtering a bull at his father's house in the Cape Town township of Gugulethu. This time-honored African ritual was performed in order to appease the...

Part I explores the compounds of sand and snow and the theoretical realms associated with them. Part II defines the key elements of what is referred to as "Canadian Black Feminist Theory" and relates these definitional characteristics to the theories of snow and sand that were discussed in Part I. Part III examines the current efforts to infuse and...

Somewhere in the balance between protecting human rights and promoting culture hangs thegirl-child, on the margins of equality. In order to move the girl-child from the margin to thecentre of equality, any analysis must give full consideration to her intersecting identities, as well asthe cultural context in which she lives. The method of analysis...

This paper has the specific purpose of arguing that pornography, despite all its other ills, wreaks particular havoc on Black women because of the way they are portrayed. Pornography demoralizes and weakens the Black community by exploiting stereotypes of Black sexuality, all the while, doing a grave disservice to society on the whole by assuming (...

The practice of storytelling or Narrative is deeply rooted in African-American culture. It is a tradition based on the continuity of wisdom, and it functions to assert the voice of the oppressed. Storytelling is not merely a means of entertainment. It is also an educational tool, and for many, it is a way of life. For others, it is the only way to...