Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

M. Raymond Izarali is a philosopher and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. He is a Fellow and former director of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa at the same institution. His research interests include globalization, global terrorism and security, human rights theory, Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. He has published two co-edited books, The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues and Challenges (2013) and Security, Education and Development in Contemporary Africa (Routledge, London, 2017); and a sole edited book, Crime, Violence and Security in the Caribbean (Routledge, New York, 2018).Oliver Masakure is Associate Professor in Business Technology Management. He holds a joint appointment in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics and Human Rights & Human Diversity at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. He is a Fellow and former director of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa at the same institution. An applied economist, his research and publishing focus is on the economics of innovation, labour economics, and development economics. He previously published a co-edited book, Security, Education and Development in Contemporary Africa (Routledge, London, 2017).Bonny Ibhawoh is Professor of History and Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He has taught in universities in Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. He was previously a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York, USA; a Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He is the author of several books and journal articles on African history and politics, human rights, and imperial history, including Imperialism and Human Rights (1998); Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire’s Court (2013); and Human Rights in Africa (2017). He is a member of the College of Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada.

• INTRODUCTION Conceptualizing Human Rights Issues in Africa SECTION I: AFRICA AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Politics of Regime Legitimation in Africa: From Rights Commissions to Truth Commissions Chapter 2: Human Rights in Africa: The African Criminal Court SECTION II: HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE Chapter 3: Structural Inequalities, Exclusion and Minorities in Africa Chapter 4: Old-Age Poverty, Human Rights, and Social Protection for the Elderly in Nigeria Chapter 5: Youth Movements: Emerging Actors of the Struggles for Civil and Political Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 6: The Sustainable Development Goals as Human Rights SECTION III: DISABILITY RIGHTS Chapter 7: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Historical Antecedents and Implications for Disability Rights and Socioeconomic Development in Africa Chapter 8: Persons with Albinism: not ghosts, but human beings Chapter 9: Disability Rights are human Rights: A Situational Analysis of Persons with Disabilities in Sierra Leone Chapter 10: Mental Health Inequities in Africa: A Human Rights Perspective SECTION IV: WOMEN’S RIGHTS Chapter 11: Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between the Law and Cultural Norms Chapter 12: Women’s rights, food entitlements, and governance in urban Uganda Chapter 13: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Africa Chapter 14: Conclusion: Towards an Inclusive Approach to Human Rights in Africa in an Age of Globalization