Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	Derrick M. Nault (Project Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-885962-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	0-19-885962-7
Barcode:	9780198859628

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