A faculty being established, devoted to law and political science.
The faculty brings together law and political science. It works in liaison with CAEPRA and the Department of History, Sociology and Public Law.
A man of letters who read and wrote Portuguese, Affonso I built schools, churches and roads, and made his kingdom one of the first states of sub-Saharan Africa to maintain a regular correspondence with Europe. When the Atlantic slave trade set about emptying Kongo of its inhabitants, he took up his pen: his letters of 1526 to King John III of Portugal are among the first protests against the slave trade written by an African sovereign.
The faculty bears his name because the first of rights is the freedom of the person, and because law, the written word and diplomacy are legitimate weapons against arbitrary power. Mbanza Kongo, his capital, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Institut du Droit International Africain et de la Bonne Gouvernance, founded and chaired by Maître Saïd Larifou, contributes to the design of the programmes. It mobilises its experts and practitioners of law and of the science of government, and organises sessions and pilot courses with the university. The partnership is being developed.
African international law and legal certainty · public law and institutions · political science, science of government and public policy · international relations, diplomacy and African integration · Pan-Africanism, history of Africa and foresight.
Teacher-researchers: Nasser Michaëlene Gabryel (scientific direction) · Khadidja Maammeri (English for international relations, dual affiliation with the AFFORDANCE FACULTY)
Associate researchers · CAEPRA: Prosper Nganbai · Lionel Nzamba Nzamba · Sébastien Magand Tardy · Nestor Ndoudi · Christian Mouandjo · Mourad Janati Cherkaoui
Organisation chart as of 26 October 2026, being established: the faculty’s leadership and its other functions will be added with the appointments to come.
Nasser Michaëlene Gabryel
Maître Saïd LarifouNasser Michaëlene GabryelEnglish for international relations · 
Khadidja Maammeri
Prosper NganbaiSecretary General · 
Lionel Nzamba NzambaAfrican politics · 
Sébastien Magand TardyCentral Africa · 
Nestor NdoudiCameroon · 
Christian MouandjoMaghreb and diasporas · Mourad Janati Cherkaoui