Human rights under African constitutions
Subtitle: realizing the promise for ourselves
By: edited by Abdullahi Ahmen An-Naʻim.
Contributors: Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946-
Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Human rights -- Africa; Rule of law -- Africa; Africa -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Expanding legal protection of human rights in African contexts -- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im; title: Ethiopia : processes of democratization and development -- Meaza Ashenafi; title: Ghana : competing visions of liberal democracy and socialism -- Nana K. A. Busia. Jr.; title: Guinea : building the rule of law for social development -- Ibrahima Kane; title: Morocco : the imperative of democratic transition -- Abdelaziz Nouaydi; title: Mozambique : nurturing justice from liberation zones to a stable democratic state -- Luis Mondlane; title: Nigeria : combating legacies of colonialism and militarism -- Chinonye Obiagwu and Chidi Anselm Odinkalu; title: Rwanda : building constitutional order in the aftermath of genocide -- Bibiane Mbaye Gahamanyi; title: South Africa : the interdependence of all human rights -- Lucrecia Seafield; title: Sudan : in the shadows of civil war and politicization of Islam -- Siddig A. Hussein; title: Uganda : the long and uncertain road to democracy-- Livingstone Sewanyana and Taaka Awori.