(Source: Routledge)
Next month,
Routledge will publish a book on the history of human rights in Sierra Leone
between 1787 and 2016
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book offers
an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analyses of the multifaceted and
evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and
2016. It provides a balanced coverage of the local and international conditions
that frame the socio-cultural, political and economic context of human rights:
its rise and fall, and concerns for the broader engendered issues of the
transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, women’s struggle for recognition, constitutional development, political independence, war
and transitional justice (as well as 'contributive justice,' which the author
introduces to explain the consequences of the problems of the temporal nature
of transitional justice, and the crisis of donor fatigue towards peacebuilding
activities), local government, democracy and constitutional reforms within
Sierra Leone. While acknowledging the profound challenges associated with the
promotion of human rights in an environment of uncertainty, political
fragility, lawlessness, and deprivation, John Idriss Lahai sheds light on the often-constructive engagement of the people
of Sierra Leone with a variety of societal conditions, adverse or otherwise, to
influence constitutional change, the emergent postcoflict discourse on 'contributive justice,' and acceptable human rights practice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Idriss
Lahai is a Research Fellow at the University
of New England, Australia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface;
Introduction; 1. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Illusions of ‘Freedom’
in The Province of Freedom, 1787 - 1790; 2. The Restitutive Justice Policy of
the Sierra Leone Company, 1791-1808; 3. No Taxation without Representation, 1820-1920;
4. Citizens and Protected Persons, 1920-1951; 5. Racism and the Rise of Party
Politics, 1950-1960; 6. Class Conflict: Chiefs, Politicians, and Peasants and
the Revolts of 1955 and 1956; 7. Women in the Colonial Spaces: From the
Founding of the Colony to 1960; 8. Political Independence and the
Africanization Project, 1960 - 1967; 9. The Narratives on Human Rights in a
Neopatrimonial State, 1967 - 1984; 10. Ethnopolitics, Tribal-Nationalism and
the Youth Empowerment Crisis, 1985-1991; 11. (Wo)Men’s Rights in the
Neopatrimonial/Ethnopolitical Spaces, 1967-1991; 12. The Idea of Liberation in
the War Communities, 1991-2002: Representation, Adaptation, and Outcomes; 13.
Contested Truth: The Truth Commission and Restorative Justice, 2002 – 2004; 14.
The War Victims’ Fund and the Emergence of Contributive Justice after 2004; 15.
The Quest for Another Province of Freedom: The Human Rights Commission and The
Constitutional Review Committee, 1994-2016; 16. Conclusion
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