Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa

Produktdetails

Verlag

Springer International Publishing

Erschienen

2020

Sprache

English

Seiten

204

Infos

204 Seiten
235 mm x 155 mm

ISBN

978-3-030-25145-1

Hauptbeschreibung

Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a ‘new’ imagination. By exploring a wide range of issues concerning justice, human rights and leadership, this book makes two major contributions to the extant literature in each of these areas. Firstly, as a project in decoloniality, it constitutes an ‘epistemic break’ from mainstream logics and approaches to understanding state, society and development in Africa, presenting an approach that is filtered through a Euro-American 
lens
 that reifies the hegemony of a particular spatio-temporality.  In other words, it emphasises the importance of 
situatedness
 by thinking 
from
 rather than 
about
 or 
with
 Africa. And secondly, it addresses a fundamental shortcoming in decolonial thought, which is often criticised for rejecting western paradigms of thought without providing viable alternatives.

The issues covered include state failure in Africa, the geopolitics of US and NATO military interventions on the continent, individual states’ responses to international law, indigenous moral political leadership, authentic inclusion of marginalised voices in development practice, an endogenous approach to environmental ethics, and a spiritualist reflection on the need for Africa to chart her own course to political, social and economic redemption. By searching for alternative paths to justice, human rights and leadership, this book represents an effort to actualise the core vision of the African Renaissance to find 
‘African solutions for African problems’
.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Conceptualizing Justice, Human Rights and Civil Religion.- Justice.- Human Rights.- Leadership.

Klappentext

Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a ‘new’ imagination. By exploring a wide range of issues concerning justice, human rights and leadership, this book makes two major contributions to the extant literature in each of these areas. Firstly, as a project in decoloniality, it constitutes an ‘epistemic break’ from mainstream logics and approaches to understanding state, society and development in Africa, presenting an approach that is filtered through a Euro-American 
lens
 that reifies the hegemony of a particular spatio-temporality.  In other words, it emphasises the importance of 
situatedness
 by thinking 
from
 rather than 
about
 or 
with
 Africa. And secondly, it addresses a fundamental shortcoming in decolonial thought, which is often criticised for rejecting western paradigms of thought without providing viable alternatives.

The issues covered include state failure in Africa, the geopolitics of US and NATO military interventions on the continent, individual states’ responses to international law, indigenous moral political leadership, authentic inclusion of marginalised voices in development practice, an endogenous approach to environmental ethics, and a spiritualist reflection on the need for Africa to chart her own course to political, social and economic redemption. By searching for alternative paths to justice, human rights and leadership, this book represents an effort to actualise the core vision of the African Renaissance to find 
‘African solutions for African problems’
.

Über den AutorIn

Everisto Benyera is an Associate Professor of African Politics in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. He is a decolonial reader and holds an MSc in International Relations from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD in African Politics from the University of South Africa. He researches on transitology and transitional justice focusing on indigenous, traditional and non-state reconciliation, peacebuilding and healing mechanisms. He is the editor of the journal Politeia, Journal of Political Sciences and Public Administration and Management and his publications are accessible via:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2706-9097.