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