Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination We, Too, Are Humans

• Main Author: Eze, Chielozona
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
• Subjects: Action & Adventure; Africa; African film; African Literature; African Literature & Language; African literatures; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Ecological Violence; Fiction; Follow; Gender; Good Life; Hemorrhagic Fever; Human Rights; Human rights in literature; Human rights in motion pictures; Human rights-Africa; Interdisciplinary studies; Intimate Justice; John Henryism; Jurisprudence and general issues; Justice; Law; LGBTQ Community; Literary Criticism; Literary studies: general; Literature & Culture; Literature: history and criticism; Mandela; Methods, theory and philosophy of law; Mythic Consciousness; Nelson Mandela; Niger Delta; Nnimmo Bassey; Nnu Ego; Nollywood Films; Nonfiction; Ordinary Virtues; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Pink Man; Political Science; Politics; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Restorative Justice; River Nun; Sex trafficking; Sexuality; Slow Violence; South Africa; Systems of law; Tanure Ojaide; Violated; Young Man; Good Life; Ecological Violence; Pink Man; Young Man; Nollywood Films; Ivory Coast; Intimate Justice; Tanure Ojaide; Follow; Nelson Mandela; Ordinary Virtues; Final TRC Report; Violated; Nnimmo Bassey; Hemorrhagic Fever; Mythic Consciousness; River Nun; John Henryism; Niger Delta; Mandela; Restorative Justice; Human Rights; LGBTQ Community; Nnu Ego; Slow Violence
• ISBN: 9781000376258; 1000376257; 036770854X; 0367708574; 9780367708573; 9780367708542; 1000376273; 1003148271; 9781000376272; 9781003148272
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003148272

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.