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Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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.
Product details
| Published | 01 Aug 1990 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 416 |
| ISBN | 9780815717959 |
| Imprint | Brookings Institution Press |
| Dimensions | 227 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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