Africa and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future

The root of most Human Rights discussions in Africa stems from the input of foreigners, either Europeans, the English. This tracing of everything human right to the whites gives the impression that they introduced the better morality, better religion, better idea of right as distinct from wrong and better idea of human rights into our “barbaric practice and tradition”. The writer as a prelude to our discussion would be examining the concept "Africa" and “human right”, going further to refute the erroneous assertion as evidenced supra that human rights is a relatively new concept to Africa, concluding the discussion with a subtle outlook of the African Charter.