Realizing Human Rights in the Second Centenary of Africa's Political Independence
Besting Our Ancestors
Author(s) Obasi Okafor-Obasi,Philip C. Aka
Language: English
Genre(s): Law and Social Policy, History
Series: International Law
- June 2027 · 344 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781837724857
- · - 9781837724864
- · - 9781837724871
This book is a discourse on the present and future of human rights in Africa. It contributes in penetrable prose to African Human Rights Law at the cusp of the second quarter of the twenty-first century, set within the dual context of a demographic boom for Africa projected to exceed the populations of China and India combined by the end of this century, and the age of a wave of new technologies that most recently include AI. It contains recommendations for best practices for all parties, notably including the African diaspora recognized by the African Union as an extraterritorial sixth region. Drawing from multiple sources, including history, doctrinal analysis of global and regional human rights materials, and the authors’ own works, the book covers all categories of human rights – save for freedom from environmental degradation, excluded as topic for future study. The focus on realizing human rights separates the book from previous studies.
Part 1. Boundary and Foundation
1. Argument
Introduction
Calling Things by Their Proper Names
Realising
Second Centenary of Africa’s Political Independence
2. Significance of This Book
3. Organisation of This Book
2. Conceptual Framework
Introduction
Continuing and Completing the Conversation from Chapter 1 on Calling Things by Their Proper Names
Human Rights
Besting Our Ancestors
Our (as a Proxy for Civil Society in Realizing Human Rights in the Second Centenary of Africa’s Independence)
Future Studies
Conclusion and Looking Ahead
Appendices to Chapter 2
Table 2.1. Recap of the three-generation theory of human rights
Table 2.2. Recap of the historical and contemporary inspirations of the UDHR
Table 2.3. Recap of core human rights treaties (in chronological order)
Part 2. Stocktaking in the First Centenary on the Road to Greater Success in Realizing Human Rights in the Second Centenary
3. Political-Civil Rights: Stocktaking
Introduction
The World of Three Locations of Human Rights in Africa
Location No. 1: UN Global Instruments
3. Location No. 2: The African Regional Human Rights System
4. Location No. 3: Analysis of National Constitutions from Five Subregions
5. Impediments to the Enjoyment of Political-Civil Rights in Africa
6. US’s Role Within the Context of International Cooperation
7. Efforts of African Governments Pertaining to Political-Civil Rights and with What
Results
Conclusion
Appendices to Chapter 3
Table 3.2. List of African countries which are state parties to the ICCPR and its optional protocols
Table 3.3. Recap of political-civil rights recognized by the Banjul Charter
4. Political-Civil Rights: Narrowly Tailored Proposals for Change
Introduction
1. Slate of Thirteen Recommendations
Conclusion
Appendix to Chapter 4
Table 4.1. Recap of thirteen recommendations on political-civil rights
5. Socioeconomic Rights: Stocktaking
Introduction
Location No. 1: UN Global Documents
Location No. 2: The African Regional Human Rights System
Location No. 3: Analysis of Six National Constitutions from Five Subregions
Impediments to the Enjoyment of Socioeconomic Rights in Africa
US’s Role Within the Context of International Cooperation
6. Efforts of African Governments Pertaining to Socioeconomic Rights and with What
Results
Conclusion
Appendices to Chapter 5
Table 5.3. List of African countries which are state parties to the ICESCR and its optional protocol
Table 5.4. Recap of socioeconomic rights recognised by the Banjul Charter
Box 5.1. The Interlacing of Socioeconomic Rights and Political-Civil Rights: Telling Evidence from Nigeria
6. Socioeconomic Rights: Narrowly Tailored Proposals for Change
Introduction
1. Slate of Nine Recommendations
Conclusion
Appendix to Chapter 6
Table 6.1. Recap of nine recommendations on socioeconomic rights
7. The Right to Self-Determination: Stocktaking
Introduction
Background History of the Self-Determination Doctrine in Africa: Chronicle of Three Eras
2. Theory and Practice of Self-Determination in Africa under the UN
US’s Role Within the Context of International Cooperation
Efforts to Realize the Right to Self-Determination in Africa since Independence and with What Results
Conclusion
8. The Right to Self-Determination: Narrowly Tailored Proposals for Change
Introduction
1. Slate of Six Recommendations
Conclusion and Looking Ahead
Part 3. Debriefing
9. Eternal Vigilance as a Guardrail Against Impunity
Introduction
The Primacy of National Action in Realizing Human Rights
2. The Role and Limits of External Assistance
3. The Role and Relevance of External Vigilance
4. Assessing Chinese Economic Activities as International Cooperation for
Realizing Human Rights
Conclusion
10. Conclusions and Prospects for the Future
1. Realizing Human Rights in the Second Centenary of Africa’s Political Independence
Prospects for the Future: Five Calibratable Influences
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
International Cooperation
Africa’s Economy, Stupid
Building the Human Rights Capacity of the AU
The African Diaspora
Appendix to Chapter 10
Table 10.1. Recap of the catalogue of twenty-eight recommendations from Chapters 4, 6, and 8
Bibliography
General Appendices
Index
About the Authors