Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs films and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers scholars artists and activists to build flourishing communities the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice social justice intimate justice and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations the plight of people affected by disability homophobia misogyny and sex trafficking and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films literature and human rights and literature and the environment.The Open Access version of this book available at taylorfrancis/books/e/9781003148272 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.