Human Rights in Africa
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2010
399 pages
978-0-8157-1563-4 (ISBN)
Description
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.
This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.
This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-1563-4 (9780815715634)
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Persons
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im was associate professor of law at Khartoum University and is now visiting professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan.Francis M. Deng is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies prog
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Editors' Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1: Western Cultural Origins
- 2. The Effect of Western Perspectives on International Human Rights
- 3. Human Rights and Western Liberalism
- Part 2: Religious Perspectives
- 4. A Christian Perspective on Human Rights
- 5. The European Tradition of Human Rights and the Culture of Islam
- 6. Current Muslim Thinking on Human Rights
- Part 3: The Context of the Nation-State
- 7. Group versus Individual Identity in the African Debate on Human Rights
- 8. Human Rights in Francophone West Africa
- 9. Participatory Approaches to Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Part 4: African Cultural Perspectives
- 10. An Akan Perspective on Human Rights
- 11. A Cultural Approach to Human Rights among the Dinka
- 12. Traditional Culture and the Prospect for Human Rights in Africa
- Part 5: Prospects for a Cross-Cultural Approach
- 13. Problems of Universal Cultural Legitimacy for Human Rights
- 14. Human Rights in an Evolving World Culture
- Contributors
- Subject Index
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