This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of
minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores
the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing
that although international human rights principles have been
embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized
persons are denied such rights through criminalization and
persecution. African countries have a good record of signing and
ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the
political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to
minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book
provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized and minority
groups in different parts of Africa and the extent to which they
are deprived or denied entitlement to the universality and equality
articulated in law. The authors show that human rights, while
having come of age as a moral ideal, has not been fully entrenched
in practice towards groups such as children, indigenous
populations, the mentally ill, persons with disabilities, and
persons with albinism. This volume is geared toward scholars,
students, human rights groups, policy makers, social workers,
international organizations, and policy makers in the fields of
criminology, security studies, development studies, political
science, sociology, children studies, social psychology,
international relations, postcolonial studies, and African Studies.
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