Mission and Vision

Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) is one of the few NGOs that exclusively address the legal and human rights challenges facing Africa. AFLA is of the view that the African human rights landscape cannot be improved unless the culture of impunity and unaccountability is reversed. For this reason, the legal culture has to be corrected and reformed.

AFLA seeks to create opportunities through which legal institutions in Africa can germinate norms and practices that abhor human rights violations. AFLA seeks a new African dawn in which the rights of all shall be respected and promoted without distinction as to ethnic origin, nationality, wealth, age, religion, gender, and other distinctions. The organization’s efforts have thus been geared towards creating a new legal awareness in Africa.

Africa Legal Aid addresses issues involving the contemporary legal and political culture of the African continent. It is a culture of massive human rights violations across the board; from violations of personal security rights and barbarities such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. But they also include economic crimes and the most insidious violations of core economic, social and cultural rights.