International Human Rights in Post-Colonial Africa: Universality in Perspective, 1st Edition

This study advances three interrelated claims for international human rights standards (IHRS). First, that post-colonial African societies are bureaucratic modern states and capitalist societies to which IHRS are suitable for application, pursuant to the Modified Modernisation Theory. The sweeping vicissitudes that have taken place in post-colonial Africa since colonial eras necessitate a paradigm shift: we must change our assumptions about the structural and socio-politico-economic systems of post-colonial Africa and their impact on individual and group rights. Second, that extant pleadings for cultural relativism in post-colonial Africa are fixated on reified assumptions about the minimal role of the individual. Today, however, every state relies on its individual subjects for its institutional and socio-politico-economic development, just as every individual relies on the state for a more secure, fulfilling and dignified human existence. Finally, the book advances legal and moral justifications for the universality of human rights standards, notwithstanding global cultural heterogeneity.\nInternational Human Rights in Post-Colonial Africa: Universality in Perspective 1st Edition is written by Santino Ayuel Longar Dau and published by University of Wales Press. ISBNs for International Human Rights in Post-Colonial Africa are 9781837720675, 1837720673 and the print ISBNs are 9781837720668, 1837720665. Additional ISBNs include 9781837720682.