04163nam 22005895 450 991036992460332120220413171138.03-030-25143-810.1007/978-3-030-25143-7(CKB)4100000008959119(MiAaPQ)EBC5848651(DE-He213)978-3-030-25143-7(PPN)259462322(EXLCZ)99410000000895911920190808d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReimagining justice, human rights and leadership in Africa challenging discourse and searching for alternative paths /edited by Everisto Benyera1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2020.1 online resource (197 pages)Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development,2198-72623-030-25142-X Conceptualizing Justice, Human Rights and Civil Religion -- Justice -- Human Rights -- Leadership.Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a ‘new’ imagination. By exploring a wide range of issues concerning justice, human rights and leadership, this book makes two major contributions to the extant literature in each of these areas. Firstly, as a project in decoloniality, it constitutes an ‘epistemic break’ from mainstream logics and approaches to understanding state, society and development in Africa, presenting an approach that is filtered through a Euro-American lens that reifies the hegemony of a particular spatio-temporality. In other words, it emphasises the importance of situatedness by thinking from rather than about or with Africa. And secondly, it addresses a fundamental shortcoming in decolonial thought, which is often criticised for rejecting western paradigms of thought without providing viable alternatives. The issues covered include state failure in Africa, the geopolitics of US and NATO military interventions on the continent, individual states’ responses to international law, indigenous moral political leadership, authentic inclusion of marginalised voices in development practice, an endogenous approach to environmental ethics, and a spiritualist reflection on the need for Africa to chart her own course to political, social and economic redemption. By searching for alternative paths to justice, human rights and leadership, this book represents an effort to actualise the core vision of the African Renaissance to find ‘African solutions for African problems’.Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development,2198-7262Africa—Politics and governmentSocial justiceHuman rightsPolitical leadershipAfrican Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911090Social Justice, Equality and Human Rightshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33070Political Leadershiphttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911230Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinaryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/A14000Africa—Politics and government.Social justice.Human rights.Political leadership.African Politics.Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.Political Leadership.Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.303.34096960.33Benyera Everistoedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910369924603321Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa2129727UNINA