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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa: Issa G. Shivji

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: . 12613 Publication details: 1989 London, Codesria Book SeriesISBN:
  • 1870784022
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.6 SHI
Summary: The Concept of Human Rights in Africa The concept of human rights in Africa reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people of the continent. It argues that the dominant human rights discourse in and on Africa, however well-intentioned, is objectively a part of the ideologies of domination. Both the critique of the dominant discourse as well as the reconceptualization are located firmly within the current social science and jurisprudential on debate on the social and political planes without losing sight of its legal and philosophical dimension.
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Book Kenya Military Academy JC 599.A36 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA008128
Book Kenya Military Academy JC 599.A36 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available KMA008129
Book National Defence College (NDC) Library JC 599 .A36 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3604/02
Book National Defence College (NDC) Library JC 599 .A36 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4272/03
Book National Defence College (NDC) Library JC 599 .A36 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4273/03
Book National Defence College (NDC) Library JC 599 .A36 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4274/03
Book National Defence College (NDC) Library JC 599 .A36 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4275/03
Book National Defence College (NDC) Library JC 599 .A36 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4271/03

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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa The concept of human rights in Africa reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people of the continent. It argues that the dominant human rights discourse in and on Africa, however well-intentioned, is objectively a part of the ideologies of domination. Both the critique of the dominant discourse as well as the reconceptualization are located firmly within the current social science and jurisprudential on debate on the social and political planes without losing sight of its legal and philosophical dimension.

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