TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ibhawoh,Bonny
TI  - Human rights in Africa
T2  - New approaches to African history
SN  - 9781107602397
U1  - 323.096 22
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - March2019
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa. Rather than a tidy narrative of ruthless violators and benevolent protectors, this book reveals a complex account of indigenous African rights traditions embodied in the wisdom of elders and sages; of humanitarians and abolitionists who marshalled arguments about natural rights and human dignity in the cause of anti-slavery; of the conflictual encounters between natives and colonists in the age of Empire and the "civilizing mission"; of nationalists and anti-colonialists who deployed an emergent lexicon of universal human rights to legitimize longstanding struggles for self-determination, and of dictators and dissidents locked in struggles over power in the era of independence and constitutional rights
ER  -