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.
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