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Human Rights and Governance in Africa. Edited by Ronald Cohen, Goran Hyden, and Winston P. Nagan. Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa: University Press of Florida, 1993. Pp. xvii, 280. Index. $39.95. - La Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples. Une approche juridique des droits de l’homme entre tradition et modernité. By Fatsah Ouguergouz. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993. Pp. xxix, 467. Index. F 390.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Kojo Yelpaala
Kojo Yelpaala*
Affiliation:
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 88 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 856 - 859
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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References

1 OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3/Rev.5 (1981), reprinted in 21 ILM 59 (1982).

2 For a careful legal analysis of the concept of “peoples” from which the communitarian ideas are deduced, see Richard N. Kiwanuka, The Meaning of “People” in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 82 AJIL 80 (1988).

3 See Sakah S. Mahmud, The State and Human Rights in Africa in the 1990s: Perspectives and Prospects, 15 Hum. Rts. Q. 484, 489–95 (1993).

4 See Kojo Yelpaala, Western Anthropological Concepts in Stateless Societies: A Retrospective and Introspective Look at the Dagaaba, 17 Dial. Anthrop. 431, 446, 454 (1992), and Concepts Anthropologiques occidentaux dans les Stats non-centralises: un Regard retrospectif et introspectif sur les Dagaaba, 23/24 Droit et Soc. 233, 256, 265 (1993).