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African Conception of Human Rights

Gilbert Arhinful Aidoo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

16 Seiten

2020 | 1. Auflage
GRIN Verlag
978-3-346-06388-5 (ISBN)

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Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: A (8/10), University of Ghana, Legon (Department of Political Science), language: English, abstract: This essay's aim is to reconceptualize Human Rights from an African perspective. Many have argued that traditional African societies gave no room for the expression of individual rights. What rather existed was group rights - i.e. group rights competed with and suppressed individual entitlements in the traditional African settings. Arguably, it must be said that whiles modern conception of human rights is attributable to the modern western history, no culture can claim any historical glory. The idea of equal and inalienable human rights was missing not only in non-western traditions but also in western societies. For many Africanists, traditional mores gave better expression to human rights than the current neo-colonial states. The different worldview regarding cosmology, ontology and metaphysics, gave expression to their human rights conceptions. African societies are built on the principle of communitarianism manifest in the extended family systems. Thus, the stricter sense of individualism, which is at the core of modernism is inconceivable in Africa. Individual and group rights are entwined in a typical African setting. Collective rights, arguably, complement rather than compete with individual rights. The full enjoyment of individual rights is inseparably conditioned on the rights of the group to which one belongs. I delve into this debate to examine the nexus between communism and expression of human rights in Africa.

Mr. GILBERT ARHINFUL AIDOO is a Political Science Lecturer (Assistant) in the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana. He holds M. Phil Political Science degree from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	40 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	African • coneption • Human • rights
ISBN-10	3-346-06388-7 / 3346063887
ISBN-13	978-3-346-06388-5 / 9783346063885
Zustand	Neuware