Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa.
A valuable addition to British colonial literature, this book places Africa in a central role, and examines the role of the African colonies in the shaping of British Imperial jurisprudence.
In this sense, this book is not a collection of hope or despair. Nor is it a book that seeks to situate itself between these two poles.