Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human rights as a problem in contemporary Africa / Claude E. Welch, Jr.
  • Traditional conceptions of human rights in Africa / Lakshman Marasinghe
  • Women's rights in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa / Rhoda Howard
  • A modern approach to human rights in Islam : foundations and implications for Africa / Abdullahi Ahmed El Naiem
  • Human rights in southern Africa : the mote in thy brother's eye / Richard Weisfelder
  • The Banjul Charter on Human and People's Rights : genesis and political background / Edward Kannyo
  • The Banjul Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights : a legal analysis / Richard Gittleman
  • Human rights non-governmental organizations in Black Africa : their problems and prospects in the wake of the Banjul Charter / Harry M. Scoble
  • International human rights and development : evolving conceptions and their application to relations between the European Community and the African-Caribbean-Pacific states / Ronald I. Meltzer.
  • The political economy of self-determination : a world systems approach to human rights in Africa / Timothy M. Shaw
  • Global power and self-determination : the case of Namibia / George W. Shepherd, Jr.
  • The "right to development" : how not to link human rights and development / Jack Donnelly
  • Research problems and library resources on human rights in Africa / Corinne Nyquist
  • Bibliography / Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Vicki M. Kraft
  • Appendix 1. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • Appendix 2. Concordance of basic human rights guaranteed in the Banjul Charter and other major human rights treaties
  • Appendix 3. Major African conferences on human rights, 1961-81.