01805cam a22002535a 4500 27276 27247 20190327122222.0 171216t2018 enka frb 001 0 eng d 9781107602397 StDuBDS eng StDuBDS Uk EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE f------ 323.096 IBH 22 Ibhawoh, Bonny. Human rights in Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh. New York : Cambridge University Press, c.2018. xxii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. New approaches to African history ; 12 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 Africa History. BUEsh Human rights Africa Philosophy. BUEsh BUEsh BUSBOL March2019 ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 Alahram MAIN MAIN 1ST 2019-03-23 Purchase 565.00 526 1 3 323.096 IBH 000043270 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2022-02-24 706.25 BB