Human Rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016: The Long Struggle from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781138604766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 318 str.

John Idriss Lahai

Opis

While acknowledging the challenges associated with the promotion of human rights in an environment of uncertainty, political fragility, lawlessness and deprivation, Lahai sheds light on the engagement of the people of Sierra Leone with a variety of societal conditionsto influence constitutional change and acceptable human rights practice.

Spis treści

Foreword; Introduction; 1. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Illusions of "Freedom," 1787–1790; 2. The Restitutive Justice Policy of the Sierra Leone Company, 1791–1808; 3. No Taxation without Representation, 1820–1920; 4. Citizens and Protected Persons, 1920–1951; 5. Racism and the Rise of Party Politics, 1950–1960; 6. Class Conflict: Chiefs, Politicians, and Peasants and the Revolts of 1955 and 1956; 7. Women in the Colonial Spaces: From the Founding of the Colony to 1960; 8. Political Independence and the Africanization Project, 1960–1967; 9. The Narratives on Human Rights in a Neopatrimonial State, 1967–1984; 10. Ethnopolitics, Tribal-Nationalism, and the Youth Empowerment Crisis, 1985–1991; 11. (Wo)Men’s Rights in the Neopatrimonial/Ethnopolitical Spaces, 1967–1991; 12. The Idea of Liberation in the War Communities, 1991–2002: Representation, Adaptation, and Outcomes; 13. Contested Truth: The Truth Commission and Restorative Justice, 2002–2004; 14. The War Victims’ Fund and the Emergence of Contributive Justice after 2004; 15. The Quest for Another Province of Freedom: The Human Rights Commission and the Constitutional Review Committee, 1994–2016; 16. Conclusion

O autorze

John Idriss Lahai is a Research Fellow at the University of New England, Australia.