Chidi Anselm Odinkalu to join the Panel Discussion on Nigeria in 2026, February 8, 2025
Odinkalu previously led Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission and, for three years until the beginning of 2025, chaired the Truth, Justice and Peace Commission, a sub-national transitional justice initiative established to address the crises of violence, agitation and restiveness in the states of south-east Nigeria. In 2017, he served on the panel of eminent persons that negotiated the return of The Gambia to the Commonwealth in 2017.
In late 1993 Odinkalu (and Tunde Fagbohunl, now SAN) were the principal drafters of the primary text of the Freedom of Information Bill, which eventually got enacted into law in Nigeria almost 18 years later in May 2011.
At the continental level, Odinkalu was involved in negotiating and creating the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and is the founder of the Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, based in Arusha, Tanzania. He did the initial draft of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Relating to the Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa, which was adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union and opened for ratification in February 2024.
Odinkalu has acted as counsel in international human rights litigation before Africa's regional human rights courts and tribunals and his litigation has been reported in the International Legal Materials (ILM) and in the African Human Rights Law Reports.
Odinkalu is associated with several advocacy initiatives for the protection of human rights around the world. Among other roles, Odinkalu currently chairs the Board of Trustees of the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) as well as the governing board of Global Rights (Partners for Justice). He sits on the Board of Trustees of Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) and the World Peace Foundation; and is also a member of the International Advisory Board of Integrity Initiatives International (III), and of the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Odinkalu is a member of the Editorial Board of Health and Human Rights at the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and of the Refugee Survey Quarterly at the University of London.
Odinkalu received his Ph.D in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and also attended the University of Lagos and Imo State University. His current research focuses on the contemporary challenges of multilateralism in regional systems in development, human rights and governance; on the right to rest and leisure in international law; and on comparative integrity of the judiciary in Africa. He is the co-author of Too Good to Die: Third Term and the Myth of the Indispensable Man in Africa, (Kachifo, 2018). His latest book is The Selectorate: When Judges Topple the People, (Narrative Landscape, 2025).
Please join us for a panel discussion with our distinguished panelists, Professors Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, Osmund Ugochukwu Agbo, Zainab Suleiman Okino, and Tope Fasua who will be sharing their expertise on "Nigeria in 2026."
Sunday, February 8, 2026
5 PM Nigeria
4 PM Ghana
10 AM Austin
6 PM South Africa
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