Contents: Introduction • Human Rights Struggle and Activism in Africa: A Background Note • The Colonial Epoch • The Post-Colonial Period: A Broad Reprise • Human Rights Activist in the 1990s and Beyond • Conclusion: Some Pointers to the Future • The document mentions massacres in Rwanda, fighting Angola, Somalia, Liberia, the pro-democracy movement, political struggles in Africa, civil society, Chinua Achebe, struggles for independence, South Africa's independence, European administrative cadre, the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, the An-Lu uprising in the Cameroons, wars of Liberation, Algeria, the Pan Africanist Movement, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenya, Joe Appiah, George Padmore, the...
Contents: Introduction • Human Rights Struggle and Activism in Africa: A Background Note • The Colonial Epoch • The Post-Colonial Period: A Broad Reprise • Human Rights Activist in the 1990s and Beyond • Conclusion: Some Pointers to the Future • The document mentions massacres in Rwanda, fighting Angola, Somalia, Liberia, the pro-democracy movement, political struggles in Africa, civil society, Chinua Achebe, struggles for independence, South Africa's independence, European administrative cadre, the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, the An-Lu uprising in the Cameroons, wars of Liberation, Algeria, the Pan Africanist Movement, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenya, Joe Appiah, George Padmore, the political liberation of the contentment, Tanzania, Ghana, Mauritania, Zaire, Julius Nyerere, self-determination, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Jean Bedel Bokassa, Idi Amin Dada, murder,, human rights NGOs in Africa, Henry Scoble, Amnesty International, a campaign of civil disobedience and opposition. The Cold War, Mobutu of Zaire, Arap Moi in Kenya, litigation, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the OAU (Organization of African Unity), the forcible repatriation of the Rwandese refugees from Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Benin, Mali, the demands of the oppressed masses, a comprehensive campaign, food, health, and CODESRIA Bulletin.
