Saving Africa From Dangerous Ideas’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14822702 |
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| Authors | Mutuma Ruteere (Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, corresponding author), Mutuma Ruteere Mutuma Ruteere |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 7-8 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Review of Books (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0851-7592 • E-ISSN: 0851-7592 |
| Publisher | CODESRIA - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.57054/arb.v7i2.4965 |
| OpenAlex | W4385596857 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In the last two decades, no other ideas have gained the totemic status that ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ have attained in global and African public policy and political discourses. From Cameroon to Kenya, democracy and human rights were the rallying cries of the 1990s reform movements that have radically reshaped the politics of most African states. While ridiculed and rejected as Western impositions by many African leaders (many of them relics of the Cold War), the indigeneity of the voices for democracy and human rights were never in doubt, particularly among the victims of injustice and misrule in Africa
Cold war · Democracy · Human rights · Injustice · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social injustice · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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