African women lawyers: numbers are up but report sheds light on obstacles to leadership in the profession

By Josephine Jarpa Dawuni, Associate Professor, Howard University

The African continent currently leads the world in the number of women chief justices and presidents of constitutional courts. Several countries across the continent have almost equal numbers of women and men at the bar.

Some countries, such as Cape Verde, Zambia, South Africa, Namibia and Sierra Leone, have had women as presidents of the bar association or law society. In the legal academy, some countries have recorded success with women as deans of law faculties and heads of departments.…

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