Human rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016 : the long struggle from the transatlantic slave trade to the present / John Idriss Lahai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahai, John Idriss, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Sierra Leone.

Human rights.

Social conditions.

History.

Sierra Leone--Social conditions--History.

Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 318 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

The Transatlantic slave trade and the illusions of "freedom" in the province of freedom, 1787-1790

The restitutive justice policy of the Sierra Leone Company, 1791-1808

No taxation without representation, 1820-1920

Citizens and protected persons, 1920-1951

Racism and the rise of party politics, 1950-1960

Class conflict: chiefs, politicians, and peasants and the revolts of 1955 and 1956

Women in the colonial spaces: from the founding of the colony to 1960

Political independence and the Africanization project, 1960-1967

The narratives on human rights in a neopatrimonial state, 1967-1984

Ethnopolitics, tribal-nationalism and the youth empowerment crisis, 1985-1991

(Wo)men's rights in the neopatrimonial/ethnopolitical spaces, 1967-1991

The idea of liberation in the war communities, 1991-2002: representation, adaptation, and outcomes

Contested truth: the Truth Commission and restorative justice, 2002-2004

The War Victims' Fund and the emergence of contributive justice after 2004

The quest for another province of freedom: the Human Rights Commission and the Constitutional Review Committee, 1994-2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lahai, John Idriss. Human rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016.

ISBN:

9781138604766

1138604763

OCLC:

1041209314