Human Rights, Regionalism and the Dilemmas of
Democracy in Africa
Edited by Lennart Wohlgemuth & Ebrima Sall
Published July 2006,
CODESRIA-NAI; ISBN 2-86978-192-X ; 212 pages
Africa: US$20.00, 1000CFA; Elsewhere:
£16.95 /$25.95
‘This is a major contribution to ongoing efforts to raise
awareness on the functioning of the African human rights
machinery. With the recent election of 11 Judges to the African
Court on Human and Peoples Rights, accessibility to the African
human rights system is even more essential to ensuring respect
and recognition of human rights for Africa and its people.’
Evelyn Ankumah, Executive Director of African Legal Aid,
Ghana.
‘Wohlgemuth and Sall have put together a timely publication that
presents admirably critical assessments of the role and
relevance of the twenty-year old African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, its structure, mechanisms, resources and
institutional autonomy, while locating the general discourse on
human rights and democracy in Africa in its wider political and
socio-economic contexts. These discussions will provide
scholars, policymakers and practitioners with useful insights
into the continuing challenges and opportunities for human
rights promotion and protection in Africa.’
Tiyanjana Maluwa,
Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, USA
The issue of human right in Africa
is as much about the dignity of Africans as it is about the
responsibilities and commitments of others towards Africa. In
this light the fight for human rights in Africa and the creation
of the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights are of
utmost importance for making true this double aspiration. It
discusses the achievements of the African Commission and
suggests ways of strengthening and making the commission more
efficient in advancing its goals and objectives. The volume
points at the new institutional changes on the African scene
with the African Union and its many new organs and the
importance for the Commission to come to grips with this in the
interest of relevance and hope for human dignity in African.
Lennart Wohlgemuth has
been the director of the Nordic
Africa Institute since 1993 to 2005. Prior to this he
worked for many years for Sida (Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency), most recently as Assistant
Director General and head of the Sector Department. Between 1992
and 1998 he was a board member of the African Capacity Building
Foundation and from 1989 a board member and from 1993 to 1999
Chairman of the International Institute for Educational planning
(IIEP). Currently he is a senior lecturer at the Göteborg
University, Sweden.
Ebrima Sall is Head of
the Department of Research, CODESRIA, Senegal. Between 2001 and
2003 he was Programme Coordinator at the Nordic Africa
Institute, running the research programme “Post-Conflict
Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa”.
Contents
Part I:
Introduction
1. Introduction: Human Rights, Regionalism and
the Dilemmas
of Democracy in Africa,
Lennart Wohlgemuth and Ebrima Sall
2. Beyond Commitments, Towards Practical Action.
Julia Dolly Joiner
3. The Institutional Consolidation of the
African Commission on
Human and Peoples' Rights: Challenges and Progress Made,
Germain Baricako
Part II: The Context
4. New Challenges and Opportunities for Human
Rights
Promotion and Protection in Africa,
Hassan Bubacar Jallow
5. Human Rights and Development in Africa: New
Contexts,
Challenges and Opportunities, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
6. Expanding the Human Rights Regime in Africa:
Citizens, Indigenes and Exclusion in Nigeria,
Jibrin Ibrahim
Part III: Challenges Facing the African Commission
7. Strengthening the African Commission on Human
and Peoples' Rights: Procedures, Mechanisms, Partnerships and
Implementation,
Frans Viljoen
8. The African Commission on Human and Peoples'
Rights
and the New Organs of the African Union,
Ibrahima Kane
9. Strengthening the African
Commission: Procedures and Partnerships,
Hannah Forster
Index
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