Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 December 2020
- ISBN 9780198859628
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 240x160x17 mm
- Weight 536 g
- Language English 63
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Short description:
Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Yet this book argues that the continent has also been pivotal in helping shape contemporary human rights norms and practices.
MoreLong description:
Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Some observers consequently have gone so far as to suggest that human rights are a concept alien to African cultures. The International Criminal Court (ICC)'s focus on Africa in recent years has reinforced the region's reputation as a hotspot for human rights violations.
But despite Africa's notoriety concerning human rights, Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights argues that the continent has been pivotal in helping to shape contemporary human rights norms and practices. Challenging prevailing Eurocentric interpretations of human rights' origins and evolution, it demonstrates that from the colonial era to the present Africa's peoples have drawn attention to and prompted novel ways of thinking about human rights through their encounters with the world at large. Beginning with the depredations of King Leopold II in the Congo Free State in the 1880s and ending with the ICC's current activities in Africa, it reveals how African events, personalities, groups, and nations have influenced the trajectory of human rights history in intriguing and critical ways, in the end enlarging and universalizing a major discourse of our time.
This is a book that needed to be written. It joins a small but growing list of historical studies of human rights from the perspective of the non-Western world. It offers a bold new interpretative perspective on human rights history and unique insights into our understanding of the place of Africa and the 'Third World' in the development of modern human rights.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Congo Free State, Atrocity Tales, and Human Rights History
The Perils of 'Progress': Black Concentration Camps in Southern Africa and Human Rights History
Hailie Selassie, the League of Nations, and Human Rights Diplomacy
Africa, the UN, and Third Generation Rights
Africa, the International Criminal Court, and Human Rights
Conclusion
