The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa

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NUMBER OF CITATIONS : 18

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1.Title: Front MatterSource: African Affairs, Vol. 109, No. 434 (Jan., 2010)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40388443

2.Title: Front MatterSource: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 41, No. 2(2007)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380209

3.Title: BibliographyAuthor(s): Terry A BarringerSource: African Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 387 (Apr., 1998), pp. 291-295Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/723283

4.Title: Books ReceivedSource: Africa Today, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1998), pp. 145-151Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4187213

5.Title: Front MatterSource: Northeast African Studies, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Issue: Cultural Variation and SocialChange in Southern Ethiopia: Comparative Approaches (2000)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41931252

6.Title: Languages in Lifelong Education for Third World DevelopmentAuthor(s): Gerry AbbottSource: Development in Practice, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 216-222Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4029377

7.Title: OROMOVÉ V ETIOPII A DIASPOŘE: MEZI „ETNICKÝM FEDERALISMEM“ A „FRUSTROVANÝMNACIONALISMEM“Author(s): JAN ZÁHOŘÍKSource: Český lid, Roč. 97, Čís. 4 (2010), pp. 401-417Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42640362Abstract: The Oromo nationalism becomes one of the most sensitive issues within Ethiopian studies orthose groups of social scientists dealing with socio-political development of contemporary Ethiopia. On onehand, especially Oromo authors from the diaspora are very active in redefining and reinventing ofEthiopia's history, on the other hand, mainly Western social scientist tend to analyze Ethiopia's “ethnicproblém” in broader perspectives. The aim of this study is to present some arguments which modifyperceptions on the Oromio nationalism as a homogeneous movement heading to independent Oromia.According to my own fieldwork and by studying contemporary scholarly works I came to a conclusion thatthere are many strategies within Ethiopia which the Oromo people use in order to coexist with other ethnic

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groups in Ethiopia and that the will to secede is rather minor phenomenon. Reasons can be found in acomplex nature of the Oromo society where many other variables besides ethnicity come into discussionwith religion being probably the most important one. That is why I have used examples from both MuslimOromos as well as Christian Oromos to support my arguments.

8.Title: "The Other": Precursory African Conceptions of DemocracyAuthor(s): Matthew Todd BradleySource: International Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 407-431Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3699757Abstract: Democracy is a configuration of governance molded by the general values, biases, prejudices,and nuances of a given culture. Individuals in Western countries typically identify with the state as reflectingthe desires of the body politic. However, in the African world, including Northeastern Africa (or the MiddleEast as it is labeled in Western literature), identity is primarily reflected in one's ethnicity, religion, andcommunal adaptations and traditions. That is, the state's conception of governance is not always congruentwith the heterogeneous peoples of a particular nation-state. As a result, ways of governance andperceptions of the "good" life are often conflicting at the local, state, and national levels. These clashingideas are viewed with incertitude and trepidation in the Western world of democracies. Thus, Westerndemocracies label non-Western democratic experiments as "the other." Hence, without a more holisticunderstanding of why ethnicity, religion, and communal attachments are so salient in non-Westernsocieties, Western democracies limit the "democratic playing field" as well as circumscribe cooperative,enduring relationships with "the other." A reappraisal of democracy as a form of governance is needed tofind a paradigm that is more suitable to the context in which various African nation-states exist. That is, onesize does not and should not fit all.

9.Title: Ethnicity and Economic Well-Being: The Case of GhanaAuthor(s): Isaac Addai and Jelena PokimicaSource: Social Indicators Research, Vol. 99, No. 3 (December 2010), pp. 487-510Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40927608Abstract: In the context of decades of successful economic reforms in Ghana, this study investigateswhether ethnicity influences economic well-being (perceived and actual) among Ghanaians at the micro-level. Drawing on Afro-barometer 2008 data, the authors employs logistic and multiple regressiontechniques to explore the relative effect of ethnicity on economic well-being. Results demonstrate thatethnicity is an important determinant of both measures of people's economic well-being (perceived andactual) in Ghana. Ethnicity tends to have both negative and positive effect on economic well-being amongdifferent ethnic groups and different sub-sample. For instance, for three ethnic groups (Akans, Ga-Adangbes and Ewe/Anglo), ethnicity predicts lower level of economic wellbeing for rural residents, whereasfor Akans, it minimizes the risk of deprivation in the urban setting. Findings from this study do not supportthe idea that ethnicity may be less relevant in shaping people's well-being in an era of economic reforms ina society like that of Ghana. Detailed policy implications of the study are discussed emphasizing the needto develop ethnic-specific development programs to complement the on-going reforms as part of thecountry's decentralization efforts.

10.Title: BibliographyAuthor(s): Terry A BarringerSource: African Affairs, Vol. 98, No. 390 (Jan., 1999), pp. 135-144Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/723696

11.Title: Nation Because of DifferencesAuthor(s): Clara A. B. JosephSource: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 32, No. 3, Nationalism (Autumn, 2001), pp. 57-70Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820424

12.Title: The Struggle for Human Rights in AfricaAuthor(s): Paul Tiyambe ZelezaSource: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 41, No. 3,Rethinking Rights in Africa: The Struggle for Meaning and the Meaning of the Struggle / Redéfinition des

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droits en Afrique: Le combat pour leur trouver un sens et le sens du combat (2007), pp. 474-506Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380100Abstract: Le but de cet article est d'explorer les changements récents observés dans le domaine des droitsde la personne en Afrique. Il déclare que la lutte pour, la reconnaissance et la mise en pratique des droitsde la personne se sont développées et élargies ces dernières années malgré les difficultés permanentes etles violations généralisées des droits de la personne, commises non seulement par Vétat mais aussi parles acteurs de la société civile. La tapisserie complexe et contradictoire et la trajectoire des droits de lapersonne sont analysées dans les contextes constamment changeants de la démocratisation, de lamondialisation, de la régionalisation et de la militarisation qui ont collectivement structuré les économiespolitiques en Afrique depuis les années 1990. La question du discours des droits de la personne en Afriqueest elle aussi examinée, lorsque certains débats sur les générations et la hiérarchie des droits sont passésen revue. En outre, l'article se penche sur le rôle de Vétat et de la société dans le développement et lesabotage des normes Rappliquant aux droits de la personne. /// This article seeks to explore the recentchanges that have occurred in Africa's human rights landscape. It argues that struggles for, recognition of,and the practice of human rights have grown and expanded in recent years in the midst of continuingchallenges and widespread human rights violations by both state and civil society actors. The complex andcontradictory tapestry and trajectory of human rights is analyzed in the shifting contexts of democratization,globalization, regionalization, and militarization, which collectively have structured African politicaleconomies since the 1990s. The question of human rights discourse in Africa is also examined by revisitingsome of the debates about the generations and hierarchy of rights. Furthermore, the article looks at therole of the state and society in developing or undermining human rights norms.

13.Title: Comparing the African American And Oromo Movements in the Global ContextAuthor(s): Asafa JalataSource: Social Justice, Vol. 30, No. 1 (91), Race, Security & Social Movements (2003), pp. 67-111Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29768167

14.Title: Conquest, Tyranny, and Ethnocide against the Oromo: A Historical Assessment of Human RightsConditions in Ethiopia, ca. 1880s-2002Author(s): Mohammed HassenSource: Northeast African Studies, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 3, Special Issue: The Oromo in EthiopianStudies: Confronting Challenges to Politically Engaged Scholarship (2002), pp. 15-49Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41931279

15.Title:Author(s): Semir YusufSource: African Affairs, Vol. 109, No. 434 (Jan., 2010), pp. 171-172Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40388460

16.Title: The Languages of Ethiopia: A New Lexicostatistic Classification and Some Problems of DiffusionAuthor(s): M. L. BenderSource: Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 5 (May, 1971), pp. 165-288Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30029540

17.Title:Author(s): Seyoum HamesoSource: Northeast African Studies, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Issue: Cultural Variation and SocialChange in Southern Ethiopia: Comparative Approaches (2000), pp. 209-212Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41931263

18.Title:Author(s): Seyoum HamesoSource: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 41, No. 2(2007), pp. 375-377Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380241

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