Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
Contents:
Beyond culture and constitution : economic marginalization, social exclusion, and legitimizing human rights in Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh -- The role of traditional leaders in addressing women's rights in postcolonial Africa : the case of FGM and forced marriage / Serges Djoyou Kamga -- "Relative universalism" of human rights : the tragic human drama and the debates on homosexuality in Uganda / Ogenga Otunnu -- Human rights and the postcolonial African literati / Bernard Steiner Ifekwe -- Articulations of human rights ideas in contemporary Yor?b? poetry / Arinpe G. Adejumo -- Harmony between two worlds : Urhobo lamenting and the politics of mourning / Felicia Ohwovoriole -- Domestic expectations and Igbo women's victimhood in B for Boy / Chinedu Anumudu and Owusu Ansah Boakye -- Delirious aesthetics and human rights in music videos about the LRA atrocities in Northern Uganda / Okaka Opio Dokotum -- The rhetoric of silence : listening to women's nonverbal activism in Anglophone Cameroon / Delphine Fongang -- Hip hop politics : agitation through film and music in West Africa / Rita Keresztesi -- The right to narrate African heritage in the diaspora : writing as a political gesture / Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues -- Diasporic experiences in Amma Darko's Beyond the horizon and Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah / Bosede Funke Afolayan.
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