Prisons are always a key focus of those interested in human rights and the rule of law. "Human Rights in African Prisons" looks at the challenges African governments face in dealing with these issues.
Written by some of the most eminent researchers from and on Africa, including the former chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. This collection provides a current analysis of the situation in African prisons and examines how regional and international legal instruments have dealt with human rights concerns such as overcrowding, healthcare, pretrial detention, and...

The reparations claims filed in US courts by the Herero of Namibia for genocide committed by Germany in 1904-1908 raise critical international law issues bearing on the potential claims of many indigenous peoples against former colonial powers.

Reconciliation in Divided Societies Finding Common Ground Erin Daly and Jeremy Sarkin "Erin Daly and Jeremy Sarkin . . . offer a breath-taking tour de force of the theory and practice of reconciliation. Their work is integrated and interdisciplinary. It moves effortlessly from law to literature, seamlessly from philosophy to psychology, and inclusively from art to history."--International Journal of Transitional Justice "An invaluable contribution to our understanding of conflict and reconciliation."--Negotiation Journal "As nations struggling to heal wounds of civil war...

Questions relating to human rights are very much in the news, yet genocides in Africa, especially those that occurred during colonial times, are understudied. The history of the Herero genocide has been examined by very few writers and almost no-one from Africa. Sarkin's book deals with the issues from an entirely different point of view, provides new information not included in the existing literature, and proposes understandings from an alternative position. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and Zimbabwe): University of Cape Town Press/Juta