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Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History Hardcover - 2007

by Bonny Ibhawoh


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In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that, in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of "civilization" and "modernity," became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.

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  • Title Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History
  • Author Bonny Ibhawoh
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition...
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
  • Date 2007
  • ISBN 9780791469231 / 0791469239
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.28 x 0.81 in (23.62 x 15.95 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress subjects Human rights - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History, Human rights - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005037168
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.096

About the author

Bonny Ibhawoh is Assistant Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada.

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