Laws.Africa endeavours to facilitate African governments in offering sustainable, free access to dependable digital laws. It aims to achieve this by ensuring that the laws are easily accessible, user-friendly, educational, and reusable. This initiative seeks to empower citizens with knowledge of their legal rights and obligations while promoting transparency and accountability within the legal system. Laws.Africa offers a content application programming interface (API) to fetch legislative content and metadata. The API is a read-only API for listing and fetching published versions of legislative works. This package interfaces with this API to allow access using R.
For more information on the {africalaws} package, you can visit the project website. To learn about the underlying code for this software development project, see the GitHub code repository.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please be aware of its Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. To see a list of features that we are either actively working on, are considering, or need help on, visit our GitHub issues page. If you find something that you can help with, follow these steps on how to contribute.