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Contents
The Human Rights Background | 1 |
The United Nations Definition of Human Rights | 2 |
Human Rights under Colonial Rule | 9 |
The Argument in Brief | 11 |
Notes | 14 |
Cultural Relativism Social Change and Human Rights | 16 |
An African Concept of Human Rights? | 17 |
Culture and Social Change | 21 |
Notes | 109 |
Political Rights | 115 |
Freedom of Expression and Association | 116 |
Trade Unions | 122 |
Electoral Politics | 127 |
The OneParty Model | 134 |
Notes | 138 |
Civil Rights and the Rule of Law | 145 |
Modernization and the Creation of the Individual | 25 |
Conclusion | 31 |
Notes | 32 |
A Social Structure the State and Human Rights | 35 |
Peripheral Capitalist Society | 36 |
The African Ruling Class | 43 |
Class State and Power | 49 |
Notes | 53 |
Economic Rights | 56 |
The Substance of Economic Rights | 57 |
Causes of Underdevelopment | 64 |
The New International Economic Order | 74 |
Class Development and Rights | 79 |
Notes | 81 |
State Formation and Communal Rights | 86 |
Ethnicity and Tribalism | 87 |
Citizens Aliens and Mass Expulsions | 95 |
Religious Tolerance and State Security | 103 |
Conclusion | 108 |
Preventive Detention | 146 |
State Terrorism | 153 |
Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law | 158 |
Some Innovations in Legal Practice | 166 |
Notes | 171 |
Womens Rights | 178 |
Political Rights of Women | 180 |
Women and the Political Economy | 182 |
Womens Rights in the Personal Sphere | 189 |
Female Genital Operations | 196 |
Notes | 200 |
Summary and Assessment | 206 |
The Human Rights Debates | 212 |
The Future | 217 |
Notes | 224 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 235 |
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