TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naʻīm,ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad
AU  - Deng,Francis Mading
TI  - Human rights in Africa : cross-cultural perspectives: cross-cultural perspectives 
SN  - 0815717954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JC599.A36 .H86
U1  - 323/.096 20
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The Brookings Institution
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Africa
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Culturele aspecten
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Études transculturelles
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim and Francis M. Deng --The effect of Western perspectives on international human rights / Virginia A. Leary -- Human rights and Western liberalism / Jack Donnelly -- A Christian perspective on human rights / David Little -- The European tradition of human rights and the culture of Islam / Bassam Tibi --Current Muslim thinking on human rights / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Group versus individual identity in the African debate on human rights / Rhoda E. Howard -- Human rights in Francophone West Africa / Claude E. Welch, Jr. -- Participatory approaches to human rights in sub-Saharan Africa / James C.N. Paul; An Akan perspective on human rights / Kwasi Wiredu -- A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka / Francis M. Deng --Traditional culture and the prospect for human rights in Africa / James Silk. Problems of universal cultural legitimacy for human rights / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim -- Human rights in an evolving world culture / Richard D. Schwartz
ER  -