Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ahmed An-Naim, Abdullahi
Published: 08/01/1990
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815717959
Pages: 399
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.00w x 1.09d