Research Catalog

Title

Human rights, regionalism, and the dilemmas of democracy in Africa / edited by Lennart Wohlgemuth & Ebrima Sall.

Publication

Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ; Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; [Oxford, U.K.] : Distributed elsewhere by the African Books Collective, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Codesria.
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
• Sall, Ebrima.
• Wohlgemuth, Lennart, 1940-

Description

iv, 189 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

It has often been argued that the concept of human rights is an artefact of modern Western civilisation, that human rights in the South are privileges conferred. These approaches have taken little cognisance of the place accorded to the societal rights held in such esteem as complementary to individual rights in traditional African society. In contrast, this study argues that human rights in Africa are as much about the dignity of Africans as about the commitments of others towards them. It argues for a critical defence of universal human rights within a multicultural framework. From historical perspectives, it illustrates how the slave trade, and then colonialism undermined the traditional balance of individual and societal rights.

Series Statement

Codesria book series

Subject

• Africa > Politics and government
• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
• Civil rights > Africa
• Democracy > Africa
• Human rights > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Human rights, regionalism and the dilemmas of democracy in Africa / Lennart Wohlgemuth and Ebrima Sall -- Beyond commitments, towards practical action / Julia Dolly Joiner -- The institutional consolidation of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights : challenges and progress made / Germain Baricako -- New challenges and opportunities for human rights promotion and protection in Africa / Hassan Bubacar Jallow -- Human rights and development in Africa : new contexts, challenges and opportunities / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- Expanding the human rights regime in Africa : citizens, indigenes and exclusion in Nigeria / Jibrin Ibrahim -- Strengthening the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights : procedures, mechanisms, partnerships and implementation / Frans Viljoen -- The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the new organs of the African Union / Ibrahima Kane -- Strengthening the African Commission : procedures and partnerships / Hannah Forster.

ISBN

• 286978192X
• 9782869781924

LCCN

^^2007383516

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library