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Individual, Community, and Human Rights: a lesson from Kwasi Wiredu's philosophy of personhood
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- Indiana University Press
- Issue 101, 2009
- pp. 8-15
- Article
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Is "communal human rights" an oxymoron? Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces the history of human rights in Africa from the twentieth-century African Charter back to the thirteenth-century Oath of the Manden, drawing on Kwasi Wiredu's philosophy of personhood along the way.