Expanding perspectives on human rights in Africa

Introduction: conceptualizing human rights issues in Africa / M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, and Bonny Ibhawoh -- Human rights and the politics of regime legitimation in Africa: from rights commissions to truth commissions / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Human rights in Africa: the African criminal court / Thomas Rose -- Structural inequalities, exclusion and minorities in Africa / Oliver Masakure -- Old-age poverty, human rights, and social protection for the elderly in Nigeria / Olabanji Akinola -- Youth movements: emerging actors of the struggles for civil and political rights in sub-Saharan Africa / Lamine Diallo and Ousmane Aly Diallo -- The sustainable development goals as human rights / Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu and David Zakus -- The United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: historical antecedents and implications for disability rights and socioeconomic development in Africa / Jeff Grischow -- Persons with albinism: not ghosts, but human beings / Jean Burke -- Disability rights are human rights: a situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone / Sylvester Amara Lamin -- Mental health inequities in Africa: a human rights perspective / Consoler Teboh -- Women's land rights in sub-Saharan Africa: between the law and cultural norms / Paul Ocheje -- Women's rights, food entitlements, and governance in urban Uganda / Andrea Brown -- Women's sexual and reproductive rights in contemporary Africa / Ramola Ramtohul -- Towards an inclusive approach to human rights enjoyment and protection in Africa in an age of globalization / M. Raymond Izarali.