(2024) 5 TWAIL Review 51-72
ISSN 2563-6693
Published under a Creative Commons licence. 

In rethinking legal education in Africa in ways that reject the patterns of intellectual colonization that have characterized its past, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) serves as both a deconstructive and reconstructive tool in teaching international economic law (IEL). Commendably, such engagements have begun even at the undergraduate level, helping to address perpetuated narratives embedded in global inequalities from an early stage. Although the goal of TWAIL is to unpack the colonial legacies of international law and engage in decolonizing efforts, the methodology of how this is achieved is largely left to scholars. This article adopts a socio-legal method to examine the pedagogy that guides the teaching of IEL in selected African universities. It aims to present a report on how IEL is taught using TWAIL. Employing structured interview questions, it interviewed instructors from countries in sub-Saharan Africa to determine if there is a unique emerging approach by African scholars in teaching IEL using TWAIL. It further highlights peculiar challenges and opportunities from these experiences. The article adds to the body of knowledge that presents not just what is being done but how it is being done to develop robust and cumulative scholarly traditions.