Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa is a region where arbitration has not received much attention over the last few decades. Because of that, the perception has for long been that arbitration is emerging in Sub-Saharan Africa, but for those in the know it "emerged" a long time ago. The increased use of arbitration on the continent as a whole lies not only with the parties' control over the process but also primarily with their ownership of the pace of the proceedings and the confidentiality afforded by arbitration. In a continent where the perception of lack of commercial sensitivity by the ...