Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Transition, 2009

Abstract

Is “communal human rights” an oxymoron? Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces the history of human rights in Africa from the twentieth-century African Charter back to the thirteenth-century Oath of the Manden, drawing on Kwasi Wiredu’s philosophy of personhood along the way.

View the paper here:  Individual, Community, and Human Rights: a Lesson from Kwasi Wiredu’s Philosophy of Personhood