Ms Henrietta Ekefre
Henrietta Ekefre is a Legal Advisor managing the Africa Reparations Program at Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF). Her current work focuses on reparations for historical injustices such as colonialism and the trans-Atlantic enslavement of Africans. She has also worked on women’s rights, children’s rights, transitional justice, democratic governance, the rule of law, and the implementation of African human rights decisions at the domestic level. She previously worked with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights; Kenyan National Human Rights Commission; Pan-African Parliament and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. She is a member of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and was part of the inaugural cohort of the Waging Justice for Women Fellowship, run by the Clooney Foundation for Justice. She serves on the editorial committees of the African Human Rights Yearbook and African Human Rights Law Journal. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of The Gambia, a Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria, and a Master of Science (MSc) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.