Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination

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 n...

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description 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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Ordinary Virtues
Violated
Gender
Mythic Consciousness
Sexuality
Nnu Ego
South Africa
Intimate Justice
African literature
Tanure Ojaide
African film
LGBTQ Community
Africa
Ecological Violence
Sex trafficking
Nnimmo Bassey
John Henryism
Nollywood Films
Niger Delta
Nelson Mandela
Mandela
Follow
Good Life
River Nun
Slow Violence
Hemorrhagic Fever
Restorative Justice
Pink Man
Young Man
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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
title Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
title_full Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
title_fullStr Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
title_full_unstemmed Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
title_short Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
title_sort justice and human rights in the african imagination
topic Human Rights
Ordinary Virtues
Violated
Gender
Mythic Consciousness
Sexuality
Nnu Ego
South Africa
Intimate Justice
African literature
Tanure Ojaide
African film
LGBTQ Community
Africa
Ecological Violence
Sex trafficking
Nnimmo Bassey
John Henryism
Nollywood Films
Niger Delta
Nelson Mandela
Mandela
Follow
Good Life
River Nun
Slow Violence
Hemorrhagic Fever
Restorative Justice
Pink Man
Young Man
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAB Methods, theory and philosophy of law
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
topic_facet Human Rights
Ordinary Virtues
Violated
Gender
Mythic Consciousness
Sexuality
Nnu Ego
South Africa
Intimate Justice
African literature
Tanure Ojaide
African film
LGBTQ Community
Africa
Ecological Violence
Sex trafficking
Nnimmo Bassey
John Henryism
Nollywood Films
Niger Delta
Nelson Mandela
Mandela
Follow
Good Life
River Nun
Slow Violence
Hemorrhagic Fever
Restorative Justice
Pink Man
Young Man
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
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thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
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