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”).

Colonial Legacy and the Nubians in Kenya: A Question of Identity

Cecilia NgaizaFeb 25, 20227 min read
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Source: National Geographic (2021) ANALYSIS Cecilia Ngaiza 25 February 2022 The narration of the black history in relation to the aftermath of colonialism in the…

Celebrating Steve Biko Ingeminating Black Consciousness

Dr Serawit DebeleFeb 18, 20229 min read
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Source: UjaamaAlive.Africa 2019 COMMENT Dr Serawit Debele 18 February 2022 February is that time of the year when a whole month is dedicated to Black…

The Declaration on the Abolition of Slave Trade by the Congress of Vienna (1815)

Prof. Dr Bernd KannowskiFeb 11, 202211 min read
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Source: Thurgau 2017 ANALYSIS Prof. Dr Bernd Kannowski 11 February 2022 Black history is a history of struggles for freedom. Today, we are still fighting…

A Good Deed for Liberia?

Dr Cassandra Mark-ThiesenFeb 4, 20225 min read
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COMMENT Dr Cassandra Mark-Thiesen 04 February 2022 Black History Month is undoubtedly a product of the United States, and in particular of Black American struggle…

Human Rights are Inherent to Every Human, or are They?

Gift Gawanani MaulukaJan 28, 20226 min read
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Source: Markus Spiske (2021) ANALYSIS Gift Gawanani Mauluka 28 January 2022 Climate change has many impacts on children’s rights. In many cases of extreme vulnerability,…

Access to Mining Rights in South Africa: Laying the Foundation of the Principle of Informed Consent

Ange-Dorine IrakozeJan 21, 20225 min read
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Source: Omid Roshan (2021) ANALYSIS Ange-Dorine Irakoze The regime of mining ownership in the South African Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 2002 (MPRDA)[1] is…