Course Description & Objectives:
- Definition of concepts
- The University Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights convention e.g. Geneva, OAU, etc.
- Categories of human rights e.g. Civil and political, Socio-cultural and economic ad the rights of nations to self determination
- Traditions, customs and human rights in pre-colonial Africa
- Pre-colonial state systems and the rights of subject people
- Predatory states and the rights of vassals states
- Slavery in pre-colonial African societies
- Slave Trade
- The dawn of colonialism and colonial conquest
- Colonialism and land alienation
- Forced labour
- Colonialism and the violation of cultural rights
- Racism in Africa
- The structure of the colonial state and African political right
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