When justice is denied at home, where do we seek solutions to our problems?
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, based in Arusha, was set up to seek ‘African solutions to African problems’. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Tanzanians slowly took the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, based in Arusha, seriously. Low publicity about the court meant that many potential litigants knew very little about it, few tried to access it to seek justice for one grievance or another.
Since 2007, there it was, in the African diplomatic capital that Arusha had become, but it attracted little or no attention from Tanzanians who might want to use it to secure some right infringed by the government.
