Originally Published in October 2013: https://africlaw.com/category/contributors/wonderr-freeman/ By. Wonderr K. Freeman On 13 October 2013, leaders of African states meet in Addis Ababa to consider a possible withdrawal from the Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court (ICC). African leaders do not find favour with the ICC’s pursuit of Kenya’s “big men”- President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. The AU draws links between the indictment
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By: Wonderr K. Freeman, CFCS, Attorney. Liberia votes come 2023. If you ask internet sensation, “Jacob Doe”, or “grammarian” Jefferson Koijee, there may be in fact no need for election. It should rather be a coronation of King George I. George Weah himself thinks he’s Liberia’s best “Prezo” ever. And most diehard CDC partisans (i.e., CDCians) gladly agree. Why not? After all, he’s Liberia’s black “diamond”,
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The idea of public funding of political parties is already well established in many vibrant democratic nations around the world. For example, it’s done in South Africa, England, Germany, the Netherlands and in most of Europe. Other places where it is done include the Philippines, Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA, Canada, and most of Latin America
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By: Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Originally Published in April 2017 The colors of the flag of the Republic of Liberia are red, white and blue. Yet, on the question of citizenship, the colors of red, white and blue are meaningless. On citizenship, Liberians see only in terms of black and white – as in black is good and white is bad, and anything that is
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Originally Published in September 2022 By: Wonderr K. Freeman, CFCS, Attorney The law should be law, and politics, politics. The Law in general, as much as it intermingles with politics, should be, in its application, apolitical and non-partisan – to say the least. And politics? Well, just the opposite of law – political and partisan. The law wants to acquire evidence and use such evidence to
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