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Tuesday, 4 May 2021 - 5.00pm
Location: 
Online webinar

This lecture is is part of the Art, Architecture and International Law seminar series which is being launched this academic year. The series is designed to bridge the worlds of art, architecture and international law. It explores the different ways in which art and architecture and international law intersect. It also demonstrates that international law exists well beyond the written word.

Lecture summary: At the heart of this lecture is the question of how music could serve as an effective instrumental tool for rethinking the theoretical and processual dimensions of international law in Africa. This lecture argues that socially conscious songs provide a beneficial lens/gateway to the popular understanding of the problematics of international law. As Daniel Newman rightly noted, “the use of popular music offers a writer a valuable device to render what could be quite dry and, otherwise dull, argument suddenly more interesting and thus engaging to the reader”. Such knowledge further engenders the possibility of repurposing the applicative dimensions of international law on the continent.

Babatunde Fagbayibo is a Professor in Law at the University of South Africa. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Public Law, with specialisation in regional integration law, from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests include supranational regionalism, transnational policy analysis, critical approaches to international law, and governance and democratisation in Africa. His writings have been published in several academic journals, as chapters in books, and on other online platforms. In 2014, he was recognised by the Young People in International Affairs (YPIA) as one of the top 35 Africans under the age of 35 for his research in the field of supranational regionalism in Africa. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Southern African Public Law Journal (SAPL) and is on the editorial boards of the African Journal of Democracy and Governance (RADG) and the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (NYIL).  

 

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THE (TENTATIVE) PLAYLIST 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vGWjsW92AW1Ql8dgRbU02?si=MhKo5KtlS-6GcaEBZ2Ck8w&utm_source=copy-link

  1. Seun Kuti – IMF (ft. M1 from Dead Prez)
  2. Hugh Masekela – Vasco da Gama
  3. Fela Kuti – International Thief Thief
  4. Peter Tosh – You can’t blame the youth
  5. Burna Boy – Monsters you made (ft. Chris Martin)
  6. Fela Kuti – Teacher don’t teach me nonsense
  7. Tamer Nafar, Marwan Makhoul, Terez Sliman The God of revolution
  8. MC Solar – Les colonies
  9. Sarkodie – Brown paper bag (ft. M.anifest)
  10. Nneka – Niger delta
  11. Femi Kuti – The world is changing
  12. Bob Marley & The Wailers – War
  13. Aline Farazao – Primeiro mundo
  14. M.I.A – Borders
  15. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – Living like a refugee
  16. Fela Kuti – Beasts of no nations
  17. Peter Tosh – Here comes the judge
  18. Tony Allen – Boat Journey
  19. Youssou N’Dour – Pitche Mi
  20. Tracy Chapman – The Rape of the World

 

A recording of this lecture is available on the University's Streaming Media Service 

 

A list of all recorded events and lectures at the Lauterpacht Centre can be viewed in on this website in Media/Audio recordings.

 

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