| Description |
xv, 399 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim and Francis M. Deng -- The effect of Western perspectives on international human rights / Virginia A. Leary -- Human rights and Western liberalism / Jack Donnelly -- A Christian perspective on human rights / David Little -- The European tradition of human rights and the culture of Islam / Bassam Tibi -- Current Muslim thinking on human rights / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Group versus individual identity in the African debate on human rights / Rhoda E. Howard -- Human rights in Francophone West Africa / Claude E. Welch, Jr. -- Participatory approaches to human rights in sub-Saharan Africa / James C.N. Paul -- An Akan perspective on human rights / Kwasi Wiredu -- A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka / Francis M. Deng -- Traditional culture and the prospect for human rights in Africa / James Silk |
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Problems of universal cultural legitimacy for human rights / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim -- Human rights in an evolving world culture / Richard D. Schwartz |
| Analysis |
Africa |
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Rights |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human rights -- Africa.
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| Author |
Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-
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Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946-
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Brookings Institution.
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| LC no. |
90037742 |
| ISBN |
0815717954 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0815717962 (alk. paper) |
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