Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

by Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide Francis Mading Deng

Book Overview

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815717962
• ISBN13: 9780815717966
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 399 Pages

Customer Reviews

A very good collection of essays, with an agenda of course

An excellent collection of essays trying to deal with the dynamic of universalism versus relativism - A must read if your are interested in Africa and human rights in a more intellectual sense ( as opposed to pure implementation)