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- Title
Did Africa Invent Human Rights?
- Authors
Amselle, Jean-Loup
- Abstract
The article looks at the emergence of Human Rights in Africa. It offers information on the work of ethnographer Maurice Delafosse related to the civilisations in Africa as well as explores the discovery of Gionean marabout Souleymane Kanté of the N'ko alphabet. An overview of the Kankan meeting in 1998, with a particular focus on the rediscovery of the Kurukan Fuga Charter that brought to light a number of principles of a strictly contemporary nature, is given.
- Subjects
AFRICA; HUMAN rights; HUMAN rights movements; HUMAN rights advocacy; N'KO alphabet; DELAFOSSE, Maurice; KANTE, Souleymane, 1922-1987
- Publication
Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, 2013, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1083-7264
- Publication type
Article