Human Rights

This is an interdisciplinary platform for exciting insights, opinions, reviews, and critical analyses of human rights issues in Africa. A cross-section of contributors shares and cover human rights issues related to policy, advocacy, practice, and awareness. The insights shared unveil a wide spectrum where human rights principles and theories interface with lived realities of people and communities in Africa.

Besides the blog contributions, the africanlegalstudies.blog and the Chair of African Legal Studies at the University of Bayreuth are constantly developing new initiatives to exchange and engage with scholars and practitioners. These include research projects such as “Intractable Human Rights Issues” or debate series (e.g. “Everyone’s human rights”).

Covid-19 and the expanded criminalisation of same-sex relations in Uganda

Dr Adrian JjuukoJun 17, 20228 min read
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ANALYSIS Adrian Jjuuko (LLD) 17 June 2022 As Pride Month 2022 continues, the Ministry of Health in Uganda has raised alarm on the rising number…

As you light another cigarette

Gift Gawanani MaulukaJun 15, 20225 min read
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COMMENT Gift Gawanani Mauluka 15 June 2022 Malawi’s 2021 tobacco sales have generated a cumulative earning of over USD 197 million, representing a 13 per…

‘LGBTIQ+ children’ and the rights of the African child

Dr Godfrey Kalitso KangaudeJun 10, 20227 min read
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COMMENT Godfrey Dalitso Kangaude LLD 10 June 2022 The January 2022 demonstrations in Kenya [1] sparked by discriminatory statements a government official made about LGBTIQ+…

Same-Sex Sexuality in Senegal

Dr Aminata MbayeJun 3, 20225 min read
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Source: Teranganews.sn (2021) ANALYSIS Dr Aminata Mbaye 03 June 2022 On December 25th, 2021, the Senegalese parliament rejected the proposition from a religious collective aiming…

Enlightened racism? European philosophy entanglements with racism and colonial practices – then and now

Silvia DonzelliMay 31, 20229 min read
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ANALYSIS Silvia Donzelli 31 May 2022 Debates in the wake of Black Lives Matter movement are contributing to the disclosure of multilayered patterns of racist…

“Separate But Equal”: From Plessy to Brown – The (In)ability of the US Courts in the Quest for Racial Desegregation

Kilili Nthiw’aMay 27, 202210 min read
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ANALYSIS Kilili Nthiw’a 27 May 2022 “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate…