Worlds of Human Rights: The Ambiguities of Rights Claiming in Africa

This book engages with contemporary Africa human rights struggles including Land, property, gender equality and legal identity. Through ethnographic fields studies it situates claims-making by groups and individuals that have been subject to injustices and abuses, often due to different forms of displacement, in specific geographical, historical and political contexts. Exploring local communities' complexities and divided interest it addresses the ambiguities and tensions surrounding the pr...