Human Rights in Africa

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Human Rights in Africa

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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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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Published 01 Aug 1990
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 416
ISBN 9780815717959
Imprint Brookings Institution Press
Dimensions 227 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim

Anthology Editor

Francis M. Deng

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