Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans

by Chielozona Eze

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. 　

Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. 　

This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment.

The Open Access version of this book, available at has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

 

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 14, 2021

Reviews

[Natalya · Rating 4 out of 5]

feel like this is more 3.5 but rounded up. interesting observations but each topic could have been the focus of an entire book so i felt it didn’t dive into as much detail as i wanted. however, interesting book for african perspectives of current human rights issues.

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Social issue

A rather deep study about justice and human rights in the racist environment, how could we cultivate love to others and how politics could behave for this social issue