Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World

by Eileen Mccarthy-Arnolds, David Penna, Joy Sobrepena

Overview

This book brings together African and American scholars on human rights and Africa, who look at the broad issues relating to global human rights within the specific context of Africa. The key concerns addressed include notions of traditional human rights, structural adjustment and its effect on human rights, regional integration and the right to development, and political liberalization.

In addition to broad themes, the collection looks at instances of human rights concerns in specific states including Liberia (humanitarian intervention), Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya (political liberalization and structural adjustment), Ethiopia (humanitarian assistance), Botswana (traditional human rights formulations), and South Africa (liberation struggle). The volume will be of particular interest to political scientists and legal scholars involved with current African issues as well as human rights organizations and church groups focusing on Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313290077
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/07/1993
Series:	Studies in Human Rights , #15
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

EILEEN McCARTHY-ARNOLDS is Assistant Editor of Africa Today, and a research fellow at the Center on Rights Development, University of Denver.

DAVID R. PENNA is Associate Editor of Africa Today, and the Editor, with George W. Sheperd, of Racism and the Underclass (Greenwood Press, 1991).

DEBRA JOY CRUZ SOBREPENA is Editor of Global Justice.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction—Human Rights and the Global System by Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds, Dave R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepeña
Human Rights Philosophy and Action
Human Rights and the Liberation Struggle: The Importance of Creative Tension by George M. Houser
Fanon's Humanism and the Second Independence in Africa by Nigel Gibson
International Response
Global Poverty and Subsistence Rights: Some Consequences for Rich and Poor States by Marilyn McMorrow
Humanitarian Intervention in Africa by Ved P. Nanda
Tactics of Protection: Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations in the Ethiopian Conflict, 1980-1986 by William De Mars
Regional Integration and the Right to Development in Africa by Michael Nieman
State Response
The One Party State as a Threat to Civil and Political Liberties in Kenya by Michele Pietrowski
The State Versus Human Rights Advocates in Nigeria by Ogaba Agbese
Professional Academic Ethics and the Structurally Adjusted African University by C. George Caffentzis
Global Transformation and Political Reforms in Ghana by Baffour Agyeman-Duah
Historical Approaches
Continuity and Change in Human Rights Protection in Botswana by David R. Penna
The Status of Human Rights in Pre-Colonial Africa: Implication for Contemporary Practice by Nana Kusi Appea Busia