Bonny Ibhawoh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 117150 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bonny Ibhawoh |
| NOMBRES | Bonny |
| APELLIDO | Ibhawoh |
| FIRMA | IBHAWOH B |
| AFILIACIONES | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3627-5666 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“No culture stops me from taking tablets”
Nigeria bears the highest burden of malaria cases in the world, and pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to the disease. Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) may have negative implications for maternal and neonatal health. The World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) helps to prevent MiP. However, due to the influence of significant others, the decision-making power regarding …
The Right to Development and disparities in healthcare access
The Right to Development is the UN-recognised principle that frames development as a human right, emphasising equitable access to resources and opportunities. As enshrined in the UN Declaration on Human Rights, it affirms that all individuals should be able to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from development processes, including healthcare. This study examines how ethnic minorities in Oxford County, rural Ontario, perceive their health…
The Histories Truth Commissions Tell
Truth commissions have become central mechanisms of transitional justice in the aftermath of mass violence and systemic human rights abuses, charged with documenting violations, enabling redress, and fostering national reconciliation. This article examines how truth commissions shape official historical narratives, focusing on the interaction between empirical truth-seeking, collective memory, and the political imperatives of social healing. Draw…
Barriers to access to healthcare service in rural Ontario
The Right to Development provides the central framework for this study, guiding an examination of barriers to healthcare access in Oxford County, a rural region of Ontario, Canada. The Right to Development emphasises that health is a collective entitlement shaped by structural conditions and shared social responsibilities. Using this perspective, the study argues that individual rights to healthcare are insufficient for understanding or addressin…
Health Disparities in Oxford County—Rural Ontario Quantitative Analysis
This paper contends that healthcare disparities in Oxford County, Ontario, a developed rural region, are significantly shaped by socioeconomic and demographic factors such as income, education, employment, for ethnic composition. Using Right to Development framework, the study integrates principles of participation, non discrimination, and empowerment to address structural inequalities. A quantitative analysis using multiple linear regression on …
Ubuntu philosophy, old-age humanism and eldercare ethics during Covid-19
For their Own Ends
This article investigates the introduction of human rights reforms in late colonial Africa, a period defined by the disintegration of European colonial rule. While existing scholarship often attributes these reforms to European efforts to ensure a smooth transition to independence, foster post-colonial stability, and address post-war geopolitical challenges, such analyses frequently overlook the agency of indigenous nationalist leaders and anti-c…
Memory over Forgetting
The Black Lives Matter social movement in the United States reverberated worldwide and spurred renewed attention by antiracist activists to memorials-and by counterprotestors who supported the memorials. These "memorial wars" built on a half century of emergent community activism and a legacy of a triumphalist tradition of war monuments and celebrations of typically male political leaders. In the revolutionary struggles of 1989 to 1992, correspon…
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism
The lived experience of albinism is profoundly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDOH). Threats to the security and well-being of persons with albinism should be viewed through a human rights lens that encompasses the explanatory frameworks at play
Inalienable Dignity
Human rights doctrine is founded on a notion of universality and inalienability. However, critics of the dominant formulation of "universal" human rights claim that it privileges Western epistemology and does not adequately reflect the histories and lived experiences of Indigenous communities. This has prompted calls for a more inclusive conceptualization and theorization of human rights that takes equal account of Indigenous histories and rights…
Shifting Wrongs to Rights
Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to specific situations rather than as the application of abstract principles. In this paper, scholars and advocates analyse the challenges in the practice of human rights, with a focus on mothers impacted by albini…
Democracy in postcolonial Ghana
This article examines how the Jerry Rawlings military government, the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) in Ghana, framed its political agenda using liberal tropes about participatory democracy as a strategy to manufacture legitimacy and mediate political-economic crisis. The People’s Defence Committees (PDCs) and Workers’ Defence Committees (WDCs), created in 1981 and dissolved in 1984, were presented by the PNDC as innovative programme…
Refugees, Evacuees, and Repatriates
The Nigeria-Biafra war contributed to the rise of post-colonial moral interventionism, ushering in a new form of human rights politics. During the war, relief agencies evacuated 4,000 children from the conflict zones to Gabon and Côte d'Ivoire to protect them from the conflict. This was part of a broader international humanitarian airlift operation that brought relief supplies to the besieged Biafra territory. At the end of the war, most of the c…
Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa
"This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups and persons in Africa and shows that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution"
Human Rights in Africa
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 t…
Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
Human Rights in Africa
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights by Christopher N.J. Roberts
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights, by Christopher N.J. Roberts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 237 pp. $32.99 US (paper). Historical scholarship on has been critiqued for using history to affirm the inevitable rise of rights. Human have been presented as the ultimate utopia, rather than an ideology shaped by conscious choices and historical accidents. Several recent studies have therefore highlig…
Stephen C. Neff. Justice among Nations
Journal Article Stephen C. Neff. Justice among Nations: A History of International Law. Get access Stephen C. Neff. Justice among Nations: A History of International Law. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 628. $45.00. Bonny Ibhawoh Bonny Ibhawoh McMaster University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 2, April 2015, …
Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa
Testing the Atlantic Charter
The historical link between anticolonialism and human rights has recently become a subject of wide-ranging scholarly debates. A growing number of human rights scholars argue that anticolonialism was not a human rights movement because it was concerned with popular liberation rather than curtailing state power over the individual. This article interrogates these and similar arguments by exploring how anticolonial activists in Africa invoked the At…
The Trouble With Triumph
The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these n…
Human rights for some
This article explores historical and present-day exclusionary impulses within the human rights movement. It juxtaposes the widely celebrated expansion of universal human rights in the second half of the twentieth century with ideological and institutional counter-movements that have sought to restrict the scope of human rights. Using the exclusionary experience suffered by LGBT people as sexual minorities, the paper argues that we must pay attent…
Medicine Murders and Blood Money
This chapter examines the tensions inherent in administration of imperial justice through the lens of both official discourse in the colonies and the jurisprudence of the Imperial Appeal Courts. It probes the fault lines in the ideological and jurisprudential debate over the scope of customary law in criminal trials, particularly those involving ritual murder. Officials within the imperial judicial establishment insisted on the strict application…
Conclusions
This chapter concludes the book and recaps its key arguments. It argues that imperial courts were central to the construction and contestation of colonial difference as well as to the subsequent management of tensions between native exceptionalism and imperial universalism. The adjudication of imperial difference inevitably manifested the contradictions of British law. Imperial Appeal Courts operating beyond the direct influence of provincial col…
Imperial Justice
Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines th…
Human rights for some
This article explores historical and present-day exclusionary impulses within the human rights movement. It juxtaposes the widely celebrated expansion of universal human rights in the second half of the twentieth century with ideological and institutional counter-movements that have sought to restrict the scope of human rights. Using the exclusionary experience suffered by LGBT people as sexual minorities, the paper argues that we must pay attent…
Refugees, Evacuees, and Repatriates
The Nigeria-Biafra war contributed to the rise of post-colonial moral interventionism, ushering in a new form of human rights politics. During the war, relief agencies evacuated 4,000 children from the conflict zones to Gabon and Côte d'Ivoire to protect them from the conflict. This was part of a broader international humanitarian airlift operation that brought relief supplies to the besieged Biafra territory. At the end of the war, most of the c…
Historical globalization and colonial legal culture
The idea of globalization has helped to rehabilitate universalizing categories, such as colonialism and cosmopolitanism, criticized for their tendency to ignore the differences between local cultures and the operation of power. Drawing on the burgeoning discussion on historical globalization, and focussing on the role of African assessors, this article examines how colonial courts grappled with the tension between the aspiration toward imperial l…
Testing the Atlantic Charter
The historical link between anticolonialism and human rights has recently become a subject of wide-ranging scholarly debates. A growing number of human rights scholars argue that anticolonialism was not a human rights movement because it was concerned with popular liberation rather than curtailing state power over the individual. This article interrogates these and similar arguments by exploring how anticolonial activists in Africa invoked the At…
The Trouble With Triumph
The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these n…
Stronger than the Maxim Gun Law, Human Rights and British Colonial Hegemony in Nigeria
This article examines the tensions and contradictions in the use of law as an instrument of coercion to consolidate British control in Nigeria and the legitimising rhetoric of human rights and social justice employed within the context of the operation of the law. The article explores the effects of laws introduced mainly to foster British colonial hegemony against the background of the aspiration to guarantee social justice and forge a 'modern' …
Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa
Commemorating human rights
Historicizing and commemorating human rights struggles have become key aspects of contemporary human rights scholarship. Human rights violations represent the most extreme manifestation of political and social violence, and this often produces traumatic collective experiences that societies increasingly find necessary to commemorate and memorialize. Questions of origin and meaning are recurring themes in debates over historicizing and commemorati…
Problems, Perspectives, and Paradigms
(2005). Problems, Perspectives, and Paradigms: Colonial Africanist Historiography and the Question of Audience. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 582-600
Human Rights under African Constitutions
Cultural Relativism and Human Rights
Discussions about cultural relativism and the cross-cultural legitimacy of human rights have been central to contemporary human rights discourse. Much of this discussion has focussed on non-Western societies where scholars have advanced, from a variety of standpoints, arguments for and against the cultural relativism of human rights. Arguments for ‘Asian Values’ and lately, ‘African values’ in the construction of human rights have defined this de…
Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa
Aiding Violence
Cultural Relativism and Human Rights
Discussions about cultural relativism and the cross-cultural legitimacy of human rights have been central to contemporary human rights discourse. Much of this discussion has focussed on non-Western societies where scholars have advanced, from a variety of standpoints, arguments for and against the cultural relativism of human rights. Arguments for ‘Asian Values’ and lately, ‘African values’ in the construction of human rights have defined this de…
Stronger than the Maxim Gun Law, Human Rights and British Colonial Hegemony in Nigeria
This article examines the tensions and contradictions in the use of law as an instrument of coercion to consolidate British control in Nigeria and the legitimising rhetoric of human rights and social justice employed within the context of the operation of the law. The article explores the effects of laws introduced mainly to foster British colonial hegemony against the background of the aspiration to guarantee social justice and forge a 'modern' …
Human Rights under African Constitutions
Problems, Perspectives, and Paradigms
(2005). Problems, Perspectives, and Paradigms: Colonial Africanist Historiography and the Question of Audience. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 582-600
Ethics in Action
This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to co…
Historical globalization and colonial legal culture
The idea of globalization has helped to rehabilitate universalizing categories, such as colonialism and cosmopolitanism, criticized for their tendency to ignore the differences between local cultures and the operation of power. Drawing on the burgeoning discussion on historical globalization, and focussing on the role of African assessors, this article examines how colonial courts grappled with the tension between the aspiration toward imperial l…
Medicine Murders and Blood Money
This chapter examines the tensions inherent in administration of imperial justice through the lens of both official discourse in the colonies and the jurisprudence of the Imperial Appeal Courts. It probes the fault lines in the ideological and jurisprudential debate over the scope of customary law in criminal trials, particularly those involving ritual murder. Officials within the imperial judicial establishment insisted on the strict application…
Conclusions
This chapter concludes the book and recaps its key arguments. It argues that imperial courts were central to the construction and contestation of colonial difference as well as to the subsequent management of tensions between native exceptionalism and imperial universalism. The adjudication of imperial difference inevitably manifested the contradictions of British law. Imperial Appeal Courts operating beyond the direct influence of provincial col…
The Great Chief Overseas
This chapter examines the origins and historical evolution of the Imperial Appeal Courts: the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), the West African Court of Appeal, and the East African Court of Appeal. It analyses their organizational structures and judicial procedures. The chapter offers an analysis of the imperial imperatives that drove their formation, and the conditions in the colonies that shaped their evolution. The chapter also…
Repugnant Customs and Alien Courts
This chapter examines the ambivalent place of African customary law in the colonial legal system, the tensions arising from conflicting systems of laws and the role of the JCPC and the regional Courts of Appeal in interpreting and applying African customary laws. Focusing on debates over ‘native assessors’ in the colonial courts, native tribunals and the ‘doctrine of repugnancy’, it explores how the tension between imperial universalism and local…
Africa and the Umpires of Empire
This chapter introduces the key questions addressed in the book. It theorizes judicial discourses of colonial difference and imperial universalism. It explores how these notions of native difference and imperial universalism influenced the practices of power in colonial settings, and shaped the evolving jurisprudence of Empire. The chapter also critically engages the historiography on British imperial justice and colonial law in Africa
Litigious Chiefs and Land Palavers
This chapter examines how the tensions between imperial universalism and colonial difference played out in the high-stakes legal battles over land and political authority in the Imperial Appeal Courts. Because land was so central to colonial material culture, disputes over land and property rights offer unique insights into the processes by which colonial difference was constructed, contested, and maintained within the imperial justice system. Th…
Unknown God
This chapter examines the circumstances leading to the demise of the JCPC in British Africa. It explores the legal and political impulses that shaped the demands for the abolition of Privy Council appeals. A central theme is the debate over sovereignty and judicial independence. It also examines the efforts made by British officials and politicians in the dominions and colonies to reform the JCPC to retain its relevance in the transition from Emp…
Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia
Urbanization was the central instrument with which colonial peripheries were incorporated into metropolitan cores. In Africa, colonial urbanization involved both the establishment of new cities and the transformation and expansion of old indigenous cities. The new cities that emerged were mainly located at seaports and at strategic points in the interior where they served as centers of commerce and administration. European powers viewed the Afric…
Commemorating human rights
Historicizing and commemorating human rights struggles have become key aspects of contemporary human rights scholarship. Human rights violations represent the most extreme manifestation of political and social violence, and this often produces traumatic collective experiences that societies increasingly find necessary to commemorate and memorialize. Questions of origin and meaning are recurring themes in debates over historicizing and commemorati…
Imperial Justice
Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines th…
Testing the Atlantic Charter
The historical link between anticolonialism and human rights has recently become a subject of wide-ranging scholarly debates. A growing number of human rights scholars argue that anticolonialism was not a human rights movement because it was concerned with popular liberation rather than curtailing state power over the individual. This article interrogates these and similar arguments by exploring how anticolonial activists in Africa invoked the At…
The Trouble With Triumph
The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these n…
Human rights for some
This article explores historical and present-day exclusionary impulses within the human rights movement. It juxtaposes the widely celebrated expansion of universal human rights in the second half of the twentieth century with ideological and institutional counter-movements that have sought to restrict the scope of human rights. Using the exclusionary experience suffered by LGBT people as sexual minorities, the paper argues that we must pay attent…
Stephen C. Neff. Justice among Nations
Journal Article Stephen C. Neff. Justice among Nations: A History of International Law. Get access Stephen C. Neff. Justice among Nations: A History of International Law. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 628. $45.00. Bonny Ibhawoh Bonny Ibhawoh McMaster University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 2, April 2015, …
Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights by Christopher N.J. Roberts
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights, by Christopher N.J. Roberts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 237 pp. $32.99 US (paper). Historical scholarship on has been critiqued for using history to affirm the inevitable rise of rights. Human have been presented as the ultimate utopia, rather than an ideology shaped by conscious choices and historical accidents. Several recent studies have therefore highlig…
Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
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