{"id":11491,"date":"2018-02-12T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu-events&p=11491"},"modified":"2018-09-21T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T18:29:55","slug":"book-launch-human-rights-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/book-launch-human-rights-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: Human Rights in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

When: Thursday, October 4, 2018 |\u00a01:30 PM
\nWhere: Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library<\/p>\n

About the Book.\u00a0<\/strong>Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa’s story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa. Rather than a tidy narrative of ruthless violators and benevolent protectors, this book reveals a complex account of indigenous African rights traditions embodied in the wisdom of elders and sages; of humanitarians and abolitionists who marshalled arguments about natural rights and human dignity in the cause of anti-slavery; of the conflictual encounters between natives and colonists in the age of Empire and the ‘civilizing mission’; of nationalists and anti-colonialists who deployed an emergent lexicon of universal human rights to legitimize longstanding struggles for self-determination, and of dictators and dissidents locked in struggles over power in the era of independence and constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

About the Author.<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh teaches Human Rights History and African History in the\u00a0Department of History\u00a0and the\u00a0Centre for Peace Studies\u00a0at McMaster University. He also teaches in the McMaster\u00a0Arts & Scence Program\u00a0and the\u00a0Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. He has taught in universities in Africa, Europe and North America. Previously, he was professor at Brock University, Canada; professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina at Asheville;\u00a0Human Rights Fellow\u00a0at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; Research Fellow at the\u00a0Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the\u00a0Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught at\u00a0Ambrose Alli University\u00a0and the\u00a0University of Lagos. His research interests are global human rights, peace\/conflict studies, legal and imperial history. His articles on these themes have appeared in historical and interdisciplinary journals –\u00a0Human Rights Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights<\/em>, the\u00a0Journal of Global History<\/em>, and\u00a0Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology\u00a0<\/em>(Journal of the American Psychological Association).<\/p>\n

See Poster<\/a><\/p>\n

Host Organization:<\/strong> Institute of African Studies, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a>, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs<\/a>, Department of History<\/a> & Bachelor of Global and International Studies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[],"event-audience":[189,190,191,192,193,194],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"\nBook Launch: Human Rights in Africa - Events - Institute of African Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When: Thursday, October 4, 2018 |\u00a01:30 PM Where: Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library About the Book.\u00a0Human rights have a deep and tumultuous\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/book-launch-human-rights-in-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/book-launch-human-rights-in-africa\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu-events\/book-launch-human-rights-in-africa\/\",\"name\":\"Book Launch: Human Rights in Africa - 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