UID:
almafu_9960118015702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxii, 245 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-108-34024-5
,
1-108-34058-X
,
1-139-06095-3
Serie:
New approaches to African history ; 12
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Visions and Disputes -- Ruptures and Continuities -- Beyond Inventions and Watersheds -- Universalizing Human Rights -- Human Rights as Discourse -- Human Rights as Struggle -- 2 Elders and Sages -- An African Concept of Human Rights? -- Indigenous Humanism -- Rights and Duties -- African Human Rights: Limits and Possibilities -- 3 Humanitarians and Abolitionists -- Linking Human Rights and Antislavery -- Abolitionism and Emancipation -- Slave Resistance -- The Ethics of Enslavement -- Transnational Abolitionism -- Legal Abolitionism -- Emancipation -- Antislavery and Colonialism -- 4 Natives and Colonists -- The Civilizing Mission and Native Rights -- Imperial Obligations -- Violence and Pacification -- Land and Labor -- Law and Liberties -- Rights and Resistance -- Segregation and Apartheid -- 5 Nationalists and Anti-Colonists -- Anti-Colonialism and Human Rights -- The Right to Self-Determination -- Paradoxes of Rights Talk -- Nationalist Rights Discourse -- Trusteeship and Grassroots Activism -- Anti-Apartheid -- Shaping the Post-Colonial Order -- Majority Rule, Minority Rights -- 6 Dictators and Dissidents -- Rights and Repression -- The Era of Dictatorship -- Oppositional Human Rights Struggles -- Human Rights in War -- The Second Liberation -- Human Rights Abroad -- 7 Old Struggles and New Causes -- Vernacularizing Human Rights -- New Causes -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-01631-2
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-60239-4
Sprache:
Englisch
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