Overview
- Focuses on situatedness in African politics
- Links the three core areas of leadership, human rights and justice in Africa
- Offers African perspectives to find African solutions for African problems
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizing Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
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’.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa
Book Subtitle: Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths
Editors: Everisto Benyera
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25143-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25142-0Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25145-1Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25143-7Published: 08 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 194
Topics: African Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Political Leadership, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary