In this week's post, Tashinga Ruwa Lauryn Magaya examines Zimbabwe's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026–2030, arguing that while the Strategy provides an important policy framework, it is not a substitute for binding legislation. The article explores the legal and institutional gaps that remain, compares Zimbabwe's approach with the European Union's AI regulatory journey, and contends that the Strategy's long-term success will depend on enforceable laws, effective institutions, accountability, and sustained implementation.

Sharon Ekambaram argues that the Constitution confers rights on everyone within South Africa’s borders and as such human dignity has no nationality. Hers is a call to action agaist xenophobic vigilantism and the betrayal of ubuntu.

In this week’s post, Caiphas Brewsters Soyapi argues that in its upcoming advisory opinion on climate change, the African Court of Justice should deploy the African principle of ‘Ubuntu’ to create a distinctly African approach to climate justice rooted in notions of equity and solidarity.

In this post, Dunia P. Zongwe reflects on 35 years of Namibia’s Constitution. He looks back at its achievements and challenges, and then turns to the future—imagining a shift from the current liberal Bill of Rights towards a decolonial Bill of Rights and vision of constitutionalism grounded in Ubuntu.

In “Re-Invigorating Ubuntu Through Water”, Ndjodi Ndeunyema argues for the existence of a court enforceable human right to water that is implied from the right to life in Article 6 of the Namibian Constitution.

Ndjodi Ndeunyema’s book “Re-Invigorating Ubuntu Through Water” is the lawyer’s version of the aphorism that “water is life”.