HARARE lawyer and human rights advocate Innocent Maja has put together an incisive compendium that would be valuable to a litany of stakeholders including media and academic institutions, politicians, legal practitioners, researchers and students.
Review by Phillip Chidavaenzi
The compilation, which is broken down into four different sections, seeks to comprehensively deal with a wide range of issues in just 72 pages, and Maja succeeds in that endeavour.
He starts off by addressing areas of the various human rights systems in the world today and proffers an analysis of instruments and institutions dealing with such in Africa, Europe and America.
In his foreword to the book, University of Zimbabwe law lecturer and constitutional law expert Professor Lovemore Madhuku, writes: “In this Compendium, Innocent expertly establishes the normative content of the right to freedom of expression. This makes the use of the Compendium handy for freedom of expression practitioners, media institutions, academic institutions, politicians, legal practitioners, researchers, students, the list is endless.”
The compendium can be used as a reference resource as it summarises several human rights cases that have been heard in the past and decisions made on almost all the five continents. The major strength of this compendium, in my view, is that it brings multiple case studies from diverse legal systems and places them between two covers. It is an easily accessible reference material.
The book is designed to provide an understanding on the issue of the right to freedom of expression and demonstrates how this can be enjoyed within the framework of the law.
This is Maja’s second book after Trial and Temptations published in 2009, which deals with issues of trials, tribulations and temptations and how to overcome them.
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A practising lawyer, Maja was educated at the University of Zimbabwe where he attained a Bachelor of Laws degree and at the University of Pretoria where he attained a Masters of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa. He is currently reading for a Doctor of Laws in Human Rights.
Maja is the founder of the Maja Foundation, whose major aim is to help gifted but financially handicapped writers to publish their works at an affordable cost. A father of two, the pastor of I Am Fellowship, he is married to Florence.
