TARISAI MUTANGI LINET SITHOLE Tarisai Mutangi holds a Doctorate and Master’s Degrees in International Human Rights Law and an LLM from the University of Pretoria with focus on domestic implementation of international human rights standards. He teaches law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe. His areas of research interest include International Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Electoral Law, International Refugee Law, and Research Methodology. Tarisai is the current Head of Department of Procedural Law and Co-ordinator of Masters Programmes. He is a registered attorney and practices law at DNM Attorneys based in Harare, Zimbabwe. His particular areas of practice include real estate law, constitutional law, and electoral law. He is also admitted as Counsel before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other treaty bodies before which he has filed and prosecuted human rights cases. Tarisai is also a consulting researcher and trainer for local line ministries, UN agencies, and African Union institutions, primarily in the areas of state party reporting. Linet Sithole is a doctoral student at the University of Cape Town. She holds an MA in Human Rights Law and LLB degrees from University of Fort Hare, South Africa. She is a lawyer by profession currently employed as a Law Lecturer at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. MARYSTELLA AUMA SIMIYU WAFULA WAKOKO Wafula Wakoko is a writer and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya whose areas of focus include governance and democracy. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Nairobi (UoN), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law, and is pursuing a Master of Laws in Law, Governance, and Democracy at the UoN. He has previously worked with and for the Human Rights Watch, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, the United Nations Development Program under the Support to Electoral Processes in Kenya (SEPK) Project, and the Electoral Law & Governance Institute for Africa. He is currently conducting research on Intraparty Democracy in Kenya. Marystella Auma Simiyu is a Doctor of Laws (LLD) candidate at the University of Pretoria and holds a Master of Laws degree from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (cum laude). Before this, she attained her Bachelor of Laws from Kenyatta University in Kenya and is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Currently, she works as a programs officer at the Expression, Information, and Digital Rights Unit of the Centre for Human Rights. Before relocating to South Africa, she worked in Kenya with the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), and later InformAction, where she managed the data team that collected evidence for the landmark Kenyan Supreme Court case that led to the annulment of the 2017 presidential elections. Her research areas include Democratisation in Africa, International Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Elections and Democracy, Digital Rights, and Transitional Justice. vii