The African Bar Association brings together the brightest legal minds for the betterment of Africa.Established in 1971 as a non-governmental organization for the purpose of uniting individual lawyers and national legal associations in Africa, the African Bar Association (AFBA) was created by a group of progressively-minded lawyers as a federation of national legal associations, corporate and unincorporated legal entities and individual lawyers.The Association seeks amongst other objectives to foster exchange of opinions and experiences among members, formulation of policies that would better reposition the continent's socio-economic and political development and advancement with the law as the bedrock for these developments, breaking new legal frontiers. The Association brings the five African sub-regional Lawyers, their respective National Associations spread over the AFBA continent.