The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Publication Year: 2007
Published by: African Books Collective
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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p. vi-vi
I wrote this book in Harare, Zimbabwe during my sabbatical. Colleagues at the Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe provided the intellectual atmosphere which was very encouraging, enabling . . .
Preface
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pp. vii-viii
The Human Rights Discourse on and in Africa is intellectually backward, even by the standards of the African social science. That would not matter if . . .
Introduction - Rights Ideology and Rights Struggle
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pp. 1-8
Once upon a time, in the continent's five centuries of domination and bleeding, 'black skins' were said to have no souls. They could be bartered for beads; gunned . . .
1 - The Dominant Discourse
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pp. 9-42
Human rights discourse has become one of the main' growth points' of the academic industry in the last fifteen or so years. The output of literature on . . .
2 - A Critique
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pp. 43-68
The prevailing human rights discourse on Africa, as I have endeavoured to highlight in ChaRter One, is fundamentally within the idealist philosophical . . .
3 - Revolutionising Human Rights Framework
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pp. 69-92
The discussion of the prevailing human rights discourse in Chapter One and its critique in Chapter Two have sufficiently exposed the need to build a new . . .
4 - Dominant and Revolutionary Tendencies Illustrated
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pp. 93-108
Broadly the two tendencies in human rights, which may be characterised as 'dominant' and 'revolutionary', are manifested respectively in a . . .
Conclusion: An Agenda for Research
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pp. 109-110
Several issues and areas have been thrown up by this work which have been either under-researched or very often unresearched. As we observed . . .
Appendix
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pp. 111-115
We live at a time of great hopes and deep despair; a time of conflicts and contradictions; a time when liberation struggles have succeeded in arousing the . . .
Index
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pp. 117-126
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9782869784215
Print-ISBN-13: 9781870784023
Page Count: 136
Publication Year: 2007
