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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
Chielozona Eze
2021
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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Keywords
- Africa
- African film
- African literature
- Ecological Violence
- Follow
- gender
- good life
- Hemorrhagic Fever
- Human rights
- Intimate Justice
- John Henryism
- LGBTQ Community
- mandela
- Mythic Consciousness
- Nelson Mandela
- Niger Delta
- Nnimmo Bassey
- Nnu Ego
- Nollywood Films
- Ordinary Virtues
- Pink Man
- Restorative justice
- River Nun
- sex trafficking
- Sexuality
- slow violence
- South Africa
- Tanure Ojaide
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAB Methods, theory and philosophy of law
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
- Violated
- young man
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003148272Editions