About
African law deserves research infrastructure of its own
Kesalori is being built as a structured home for the legislation, judgments and regulatory material of 54 African jurisdictions — organised by jurisdiction, connected by citation, and honest about what has been verified.
Why it exists
The gap is structural, not editorial
African legal material is dispersed across gazettes, judiciaries, parliaments and regional bodies, each publishing in its own format and its own language. Research that crosses a border usually means starting again.
The answer is not a larger search box. It is a corpus where each record has a jurisdiction, a publisher, a verification state and a place in the citation network.
Jurisdiction first
Legal tradition, language and publisher shape how a record is read. We keep them attached.
Institutions second
Teams need shared collections, defined roles and an audit trail. That shapes the data model.
Principles
What we will and will not claim
A legal intelligence platform is only as trustworthy as its account of its own limits.
Source provenance
Each record carries where it came from and who published it, so a result can be traced back to its origin.
Citation transparency
Citations show their resolution state. An unresolved link is labelled as unresolved rather than presented as settled.
Verification state
Records distinguish verified content from unverified material. Coverage differs by jurisdiction and is stated as it is.
Jurisdiction awareness
Results are scoped by jurisdiction, legal tradition and language rather than pooled into one undifferentiated index.
Responsible AI
AI-assisted output is direction, not authority. It never stands in for a source and is never presented as legal advice.
Human review
Material enters the shared corpus through editorial review with separation of duties from the contributor.
Data security
Organisation boundaries are enforced in the backend. Private documents are stored privately and are not published by default.
Build a clearer view of African law.
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