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Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

An-Naim, Abdullahi Ahmed
Deng, Francis M.

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0815717954
ISBN13: 9780815717959
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Aug 1 1990
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.05
Language: English

This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.
This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.

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