杏吧原创

When: Thursday, October 4, 2018 |聽1:30 PM
Where: Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library

杏吧原创 the Book.聽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.

杏吧原创 the Author.聽Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh teaches Human Rights History and African History in the聽Department of History聽and the聽Centre for Peace Studies聽at McMaster University. He also teaches in the McMaster聽Arts & Scence Program聽and the聽Institute 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;聽Human Rights Fellow聽at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; Research Fellow at the聽Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the聽Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught at聽Ambrose Alli University聽and the聽University 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 –聽Human Rights Quarterly,听The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the聽Journal of Global History, and聽Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology聽(Journal of the American Psychological Association).

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Host Organization: Institute of African Studies, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Department of History & Bachelor of Global and International Studies