Cultural Transformation and Human Rights
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This book clarifies what should constitute human rights, and strategies for their realization in an African context. Booknews Seeking to aid the formulation of policy recommendations and law reform proposals promoting human rights in African societies, eight articles explore relationships between religion, law, and human rights in African cultures. Presented by An-Na'im (law, Emory U.), the articles are founded in the concept that human rights should be rooted in the transformation of concepts and realities already present in local cultures. Among the topics are a suggestion that the term "cultural relativism" is actually perpetuated by ethnocentric Westerners who resist a multi-cultural human rights corpus, a view of the struggle of women as being a core of the struggle for an equitable society, and examinations of land tenure regimes as structural dimensions of cultural transformations. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the ContributorsIntroduction11Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in African Societies132Human Rights and Cultural Branding: Who Speaks and How383The Banjul Charter: The Case for an African Cultural Fingerprint684Mediating Culture and Human Rights in Favour of Land Rights for Women in Africa: A Framework for Community-level Action1085Are Local Norms and Practices Fences or Pathways? The Example of Women's Property Rights1266Religious Revivalism, Human Rights Activism and the Struggle for Women's Rights in Nigeria1517Contradictory Perspectives on Rights and Justice in the Context of Land Tenure Reform in Tanzania1928The Effects of Land Tenure on Women's Access and Control of Land in Kenya218Index261
