Course Description & Objectives:
- The role of Institutions in conscientising African e.g. U.N., Education, the Mass Media, Pan-African Congress etc.
- Emancipation and the repressive colonial state
- Guarantees of human rights in selected African Independence Constitutions – A critique
- State Institutions and human rights e.g. the Army Police, the Chiefs etc. Since Independence
- The rights of minorities
- The struggle for democratic governance in Africa since independence
- Human rights and the wars
- The rights of refugees
- The press and human rights in Africa
- Academic freedom
- The workers rights
- The rights of women and children today
- Environment and human rights
- Neo-colonialism and its socio-economic implications