ABSTRACT
The constitutional developments in North America and Europe had repercussions for the rest of the world, most of which were still under colonial rule. In fact, one of the most important postwar European constitutional developments was the emergence of the liberation movements in the colonial territories, largely spurred by the new postwar developments in Europe. There also emerged political elite in the colonized states who had participated in the Second World War and who were exposed to these developments. The constitutional developments in these territories would later be patterned along those of their colonial masters or along the ideologies of those countries that had dominant political and military influence over them. In Africa, the post Second World War developments brought with them extensive bodies of law and public institutions inextricably linked with the historical associations between the colonized states and their colonizers.
