Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim; Francis M. Deng

doi:10.5771/9780815715634

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-1795-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-1563-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 399
Product Type: Edited Book

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1. 4. A Christian Perspective on Human Rights No access
2. 5. The European Tradition of Human Rights and the Culture of Islam No access
3. 6. Current Muslim Thinking on Human Rights No access
1. 7. Group versus Individual Identity in the African Debate on Human Rights No access
2. 8. Human Rights in Francophone West Africa No access
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