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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.
Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of
implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa. Many have praised the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), first
adopted by the UN in 2006, as a revolutionary step towards
disability rights in Africa. But how real is the progress towards
equality for persons with physical disabilities, mental health
difficulties, blindness, deafness or albinism? What are the
barriers to the CRPD's successful implementation on the continent,
and how might we enforce inclusiveness and equality among those
disadvantaged? This book brings together the findings of
researchers in Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya,
Zimbabwe and South Africa to offer grassroots' perspectives on the
challenges and possibilities of achieving disability rights under
the CRPD. Challenging the generally optimistic view presented to
date, the contributors provide evidence-based trenchant critiques
of the Convention, highlight the ways in which disability rights
are interpreted in varying contexts and with different
disabilities, and examine particular issues in relation to children
and women. Finally, the contributors suggest ways of moving forward
and achieving disability rights in Africa.
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.
This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of
the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in
Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central
paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa - the
tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal
democratic model on which most African states were founded at
independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to
aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the
protection of the rights of minority groups to political
participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining
this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has,
in the decades since independence, become the key national question
in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This
volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they
relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious
identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed
conflicts.
This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of
the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in
Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central
paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa - the
tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal
democratic model on which most African states were founded at
independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to
aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the
protection of the rights of minority groups to political
participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining
this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has,
in the decades since independence, become the key national question
in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This
volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they
relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious
identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed
conflicts.
More than just an opportunity to uncover fact after conflict, truth
commissions can also offer restorative power to nations across the
globe. Truth Commissions and State Building presents the first
comparative study of the role of its kind, illuminating these
possibilities. Examining truth commissions as mechanisms for civic
inclusion, identity formation, institutional reform, and nation
(re)building in post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies, the
book shifts attention towards institutional innovation in African
countries, where approximately a third of all commissions have been
established. Contributors explore the mandates, methods, outcomes,
and legacies of truth commissions, analyzing their place in
transitional and restorative justice. Rather than conceptualizing
state building as incidental to their work, they present it as an
intrinsic, central component. This flagship volume – authored by
a stellar cast of policymakers, practitioners, and scholars –
brings multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral perspectives to bear on
the complex role of truth commissions in addressing transitional
justice, historical injustices, and present-day human rights
violations. As more countries, in both the Global South and the
North, adopt this model to address historical and contemporary
abuses, the dialogue between different sectors of society modelled
here will help inform this process – wherever it might occur.
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.
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.
Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial
governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British
Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and
the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East
Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference
and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of
power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of
Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites
where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines the
tensions that permeated the colonial legal system such as the
difficulty of upholding basic standards of British justice while at
the same time allowing for local customary divergence which was
thought essential to achieving that justice. The modernizing
mission of British justice could only truly be achieved through
recognition of local exceptionality and difference. Natives who
appealed to the Courts of Empire were entitled to the same
standards of justice as their 'civilized' colonists, yet the
boundaries of racial, ethnic, and cultural difference somehow had
to be recognized and maintained in the adjudicatory process.
Meeting these divergent goals required flexibility in colonial
law-making as well as in the administration of justice. In the
paradox of integration and differentiation, imperial power and
local cultures were not always in conflict but were sometimes
complementary and mutually reinforcing. The book draws attention
not only to the role of Imperial Appeal Courts in the colonies but
also to the reciprocal place of colonized peoples in shaping the
processes and outcomes of imperial justice. A valuable addition to
British colonial literature, this book places Africa in a central
role, and examines the role of the African colonies in the shaping
of British Imperial jurisprudence.
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