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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Human Rights as a Metaphor | |
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| The Metaphor of Human Rights | |
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| The Grand Narrative of Human Rights | |
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| The Metaphor of the Savage | |
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| The Metaphor of the Victim | |
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| The Metaphor of the Savior | |
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| Human Rights as an Ideology | |
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| The Authors of Human Rights | |
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| A Holy Trinity: Liberalism, Democracy, and Human Rights | |
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| Conventional Doctrinalists | |
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| The Conceptualizers | |
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| The Cultural Pluralists | |
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| Political Strategists and Instrumentalists | |
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| Human Rights and the African Fingerprint | |
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| Africa in a Rights Universe | |
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| Human Rights in Precolonial Africa | |
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| The Dialectic of Rights and Duties | |
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| The Duty/Rights Conception | |
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| Whither Africa? | |
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| Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism | |
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| The Problem of Religious Rights | |
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| Demonizing the "Other" | |
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| Proselytization in Africa | |
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| The Legal Invisibility of Indigenous Religions | |
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| Ideals Versus Realities | |
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| The Moral Equivalency of Cultures | |
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| The African State, Human Rights, and Religion | |
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| Religion and African Statehood | |
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| Identity Disorientation | |
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| The Culture of Silence and Postcolonialism | |
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| Counterpenetration as a Farce | |
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| Benin Returns to Its Roots | |
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| The Limits of Rights Discourse | |
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| South Africa: the Human Rights State | |
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| The Rights Framework as an ANC Strategy: A Snapshot of Apartheid | |
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| The Evolution of a Rights Approach | |
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| The Compromise of the Interim Constitution | |
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| The 1996 Constitution as a Normative Continuum | |
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| The ANC's Gradualist Rights Approach | |
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| Land Reform as a Central Plank of the Struggle | |
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| Women in Post?Apartheid South Africa | |
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| The Status and Orientation of Post-Apartheid Courts | |
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| Humanizing the Instruments of Coercion | |
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| Rights Discourse Not a Panacea | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |