Human Rights in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781107602397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Bonny Ibhawoh

Opis

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.

Recenzje

'How can human rights be universal if they originate in one place or are applied to only sector of humanity? This and related questions have occupied scholars of rights in and outside of Africa for generations. Bonny Ibhawoh's exciting new work sweeps past this redundancy by delving deeply into rights-based rhetoric, argument, and mobilization by Africans transnationally and transregionally. Ibhawoh connects rights visionaries of the African and diasporic past to the political challenges of the present in provocative and innovative ways and has written highly readable and teachable book.' Benjamin N. Lawrance, Rochester Institute of Technology

Spis treści

1. Visions and disputes; 2. Elders and sages; 3. Humanitarians and abolitionists; 4. Natives and colonists; 5. Nationalists and anti-colonists; 6. Dictators and dissidents; 7. Old struggles and new causes.