Description: For decades, post-independence Africa has been marked
by conflicts, violence, and civil wars leading to a displacement of
civilian populations and numerous humanitarian crises. For example,
the Somali war, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and the Darfur conflict
in Western Sudan illustrate this phenomenon. In these situations,
protecting the basic human rights of security, subsistence, the
liberties of social participation, and the physical movement of
refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)--particularly
women, children, and young people--has been seen as inadequate.
This book offers the following: a systematic presentation of the
nature and scope of the crises; an evaluative description of the
achievements and failures of governments, organizations, and the
international community in responding to the crises; a critical
analysis of the rationale for such an inadequate response; and a
philosophical and theological study of basic human rights that
seeks to redress these failures by envisioning an appropriate
response and a lasting solution to the conflicts, displacement, and
humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. Endorsements:
""Humanitarian crises in the Great Lakes Region of Africa have
resulted in massive suffering and displacement. In Basic Human
Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gabriel
Msoka offers a rich and incisive account of the legal and moral
claim-rights of refugees and IDPs (Internally Displaced
Persons).Msoka explores the scope and limits of modern ""rights
talk"" and draws upon theological resources in proposing a
constructive account of the human rights of the forcibly displaced.
This is an important and all too timely book."" --William O'Neill,
SJ, Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, Jesuit School of Theology
at Berkeley ""Msoka's book honors the memory of those promoting the
basic human rights of refugees and internally displaced persons
(IDPs) in the Great Lakes region of Sub-Saharan Africa.Msoka brings
first-hand knowledge and insight to the plight and anguish of these
displaced persons.His treatment of the biblically inspired social
teaching of the RomanCatholic Church as a basis for
implementingthese basic human rights is especially
compelling.Msoka'spowerful final thought--that victims and
persecutors are called upon to make a change of heart and embrace
each other as children of God, redeemed by Christ the
proto-ancestor--is valid not only for the tragedy ofthedisplaced
persons of Sub Saharan Africa, but for the wellbeing of all
humanity. --Sylvan Capitani, Pastor, St. John the Baptist Catholic
Church, New Freedom, PA About the Contributor(s): Gabriel Andrew
Msoka was born and raised in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, Africa.
He is a Catholic priest and a member of the Religious and
Missionary Order of the Apostles of Jesus. Msoka has received two
Pontifical degrees: In 1998 he graduated with a Licentiate Degree
in Sacred Theology with a specialization in Moral Theology (STL)
from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. In
2005 he graduated with a Doctorate in Sacred Theology with a
specialization in social ethics (STD) from the Jesuit School of
Theology in Berkeley, California. Msoka is the associate pastor at
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Freedom, Pennsylvania.
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