Human Rights and Contemporary Issues in Africa
Author: Nsongurua J. Udombana
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 286
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Author: Nsongurua J. Udombana
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eunice N. Sahle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1137519150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent. It examines critical debates in human rights bringing together conceptually and empirically rich contributions from leading thinkers in human rights and African studies. Drawing on scholarly insights from the fields of constitutional law, human rights, development, feminist studies, public health, and media studies, the volume contributes to scholarly debates on constitutionalism, the right to water, securitization of development, environmental and transitional justice, sexual rights, conflict and gender-based violence, the right to development, and China’s deepening role in Africa. Consequently, it makes an important scholarly intervention on timely issues pertaining to the African continent and beyond.
Author: Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107016312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.
Author: Anna Maria Johnson
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 150262379X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman Rights in Contemporary Africa provides an in-depth look at the current state of human rights across the continent. The book explores the obstacles to human rights including the lingering effects of colonialism and imperialism, which led to volatile political situations in many areas. Human Rights in Contemporary Africa profiles activists and political regimes to provide context for the struggles countries around the continent face as they grapple with the issues of human safety, security, and dignity.
Author: Ehimika A. Ifidon
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-04-18
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1527509524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. Africa, on the eve of the ‘independence revolution’, was the continent of hope and high expectations. By the third decade of independence, optimism had been replaced by dismality. African states had been beset by ethno-political squabbles, military rule, civil wars, Islamic and insurgent movements, extreme poverty and disease. With the ascent of redemocratization in the 1990s and of ‘new’ pan-Africanism derived from the formation of the African Union, Africa appeared set to claim its vaunted destiny. This book asks, with hindsight to the first decade of the twenty-first century: how real was the renaissance in African life? If the dismal African condition is a phase in the historical development of Africa, this volume does not see any golden age in the past to which Africa aspires to return. There is clearly a continuation and persistence of crisis, with an absence of good governance, personalisation of state power, widespread disease, and policy failure in education, economy and infrastructural development. Although endowed with abundant human and natural resources, Africa remains the least developed and most indebted continent. Whither then the African Renaissance? The methodologies that underpin the contributions in this book are as diverse as the specialisations of the contributors. The collection questions ideologically protected assumptions and presumptions, presenting Africa as it is, because it is only by knowing where Africa truly stands that a proper direction can be charted for it.
Author: Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011-12-23
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 9004218149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe African human rights system has undergone some remarkable developments since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, the cornerstone of the African human rights system, in June 1981. The year2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter. It also marked 25 years since the African Charter entered into force on 21 October 1986.This book aims to provide reflections on most of the major human rights issues in the past 30 years of the African human rights system in practice and discussion on the future: the African Charter s impact and contribution to the respect, protection and promotion of human rights in Africa; the contemporary challenges faced by the African Human rights system in responding adequately to the demands of rapidly evolving African societies; and how the African human rights system can be strengthened in the future to ensure that the human rights protected in the African Charter, as developed in the jurisprudence of the African Commission since the Commission was inaugurated in 1987, are realised in practice.The chapters in this volume bring together the work of 20 human rights scholars and practitioners, with expertise in human rights in Africa, under the following general themes: rights and duties in the African Charter; rights of the vulnerable under the African system; implementation mechanisms for human rights in Africa; and towards an effective African regional human rights system.
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-12-10
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 3031153979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume analyses democratic governance, the rule of law and development in Africa. It is unique and timely. First, the theme and sub-themes were carefully selected to solicit quality chapters from academics, practitioners and graduate students on topical and contemporary issues in constitutional law, human rights, and democratic governance in Africa. The chapters were subjected to a single-blind peer review by experts and scholars in the relevant fields to ensure that high quality submissions are included. Due to the dearth of knowledge and studies on the chosen thematic areas, the publication will remain relevant after several years due to the timeless themes it covers. In this regard, this edited volume audits the progress of democratic consolidation, rule of law and development in Ghana with selected case studies from other African countries. This book is intended for higher education institutions (universities, institutes and centres), public libraries, general academics, practitioners and students of law, democracy, human rights and political science, especially those interested in African affairs.
Author: Hannah Muzee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 3031112482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the governance and democratization process in Africa, its history, trends, and prospects. Written by a diverse panel of experts, the book provides an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of Africa’s democratic environment. Chapters cover topics such as the evolution of democracy in Africa, electoral politics, gender, activism, human rights, and cultural diversity. Critically assessing the fit of democracy for African countries and offering strategies for the Africanization of democracy, this volume will be important for researchers and students interested in African politics, postcolonial theory, democracy, and governance.
Author: Oche Onazi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9400775377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.