LEGAL REVIEW OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GHANA AND NIGERIA

Abstract

The pursuit to achieve sustainable development in Africa has led to the highlighting of crucial developmental concepts of which corporate social responsibility is part. This academic piece seeks to review the practice of this mainly philanthropic concept in Ghana and Nigeria from a legal point of view. Ghana and Nigeria are economic power houses in the Africa, and on several occasions these two countries have set the pace for development initiatives for other countries in Africa. The need for this review has been driven by the lasting impact and effective progression of concepts established and entrenched by law. By previewing some implicit and explicit laws surrounding corporate social responsibility on the international and domestic levels of both countries the paper duly makes mention of the problems hindering the progress of the concept and how they can be tackled.