The fight for climate justice in Africa reached a pivotal milestone this week as Kabarak University, in a strategic partnership with the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF), convened the African States Sensitisation Conference on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. The conference, held at the ICRAF Campus, marks a historic moment for the continent. It serves as a high-level platform to dissect the July 25, 2025, Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ); a landmark ruling that has redefined the legal landscape of global climate obligations.

Kabarak University Press is honoured to host the Bonaya Godana Distinguished Lectures.

These Lectures are established to honour the legacy of Dr Bonaya Adhi Godana, who was a great Kenyan statesman and international lawyer who was passionately committed to uplifting the peoples of Africa and in particular his native homelands of North West Kenya. HE Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf in his inaugural 2026 Lecture, described Dr Godana as one whose ‘vision as a statesman and international lawyer transcended the African continent and embraced all the peoples of what we call today the Global South. He was a true “tiersmondiste”’.

Kabarak Law Review invites submissions and commentaries on various aspects of the law and politics of police accountability. This section commemorates the lives of Benson Njiru Ndwiga and Emmanuel Mutura Ndwiga (known as the Kianjokoma Brothers), who fell victim to police brutality on 1 August 2021 during COVID-19 curfew enforcement in Kenya. Emmanuel was a second-year student at Kabarak Law School.

Reflecting on 30 years of Mamdani’s Citizen and subject

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40 years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to DevelopmentIntroduction

2 July 2006 marked a significant year in the African continent as the date of adoption of the African Youth Charter. This year, 2026, we mark twenty (20) years since the adoption of the African Youth Charter. This is an achievement for a continent that is the youngest in the world, with a median age of approximately 19 years. Over the past two decades, the Charter has provided a common vision that has aimed to promote youth rights and development across Africa. Additionally, it has helped shape national youth policies and pushed governments and partners to invest in the development of sustainable youth projects.

Every society is built on borrowed time. We live in spaces shaped by people we rarely pause to acknowledge, walking in the shadows of those who came before us. Yet as the world moves on, elders, presumed to be the carriers of memory and wisdom, are often overlooked as life rushes forward. As a result, we end up taking for granted the courage and foresight that built our civilisation. Why should we honour our elders? Because without them, we would not be who we are. They carried the burdens, built the spaces we now live in and taught us lessons we cannot learn from books. To honour them is to remember where we come from, and to learn what it takes to keep moving forward. From its very first issue, Kabarak Law Review has contributed to this task of keeping alive the memory of our elders in the Honour your elders section.

Kabarak University Press, the publishing arm of Kabarak University and a rising star in the world of academic publishing, made a notable presence at the 2023 Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) Show. The event, held at the Nakuru Show ground , attracted a diverse range of exhibitors and attendees from the agricultural and academic sectors. Kabarak University Press grabbed attention with their impressive display of scholarly publications.

The Kabarak Journal of Law & Ethics (KJLE) is the flagship publication of the Kabarak Law School (KLS). It is published by the Kabarak University Press (KABU Press). This will be the seventh volume of KJLE. KLS is pleased to invite submissions for its seventh issue [Volume (7) 2023] which is expected to be published in June 2023.