Cultural Transformation in Africa: Legal, Theological, and Human Rights Perspectives

Project Description

An exploration of cultural transformation in Africa, with particular emphasis on the improvement of women's rights to and control over land as a vital economic resource and vindication of second generation rights.

Project Accomplishments

• Roundtable conferences in Atlanta (1996) and in Cape Town, South Africa (1997, co-organized with the Center for African Studies of the University of Cape Town), summarized in  Emory International Law Review 11 (1997): 287-349
• Women and Land website
• Islam and Human Rights website

Sponsors

The Ford Foundation

Directors

• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
• Johan D. van der Vyver

Other Participants

• Hussaina J. Abdullah, Nigeria
  
• Winnie Bikaako, Uganda
  
• Elise-Henriette Bikie, Cameroon
  
• Florence Butegwa, Uganda
  
• Martin Chanock, La Trobe University, Australia
  
• Patrice Bigombe Logo, Cameroon
  
• Liazzat Bonate, Mozambique
  
• Paulito Angelo Coutinho, Mozambique
  
• Gemechu Degefa, Ethiopia
  
• Jeffrey Hammond, Emory University
  
• Ibrahim Hamza, Nigeria
  
• Vasco Filipe Macudo, Mozambique
  
• Geunet Meteke, Ethiopia
  
• Makau wa Mutua, State University of New York, Buffalo
  
• Annie Kairaba, Rwanda
  
• John Muyenzi, Rwanda
  
• Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Kenya
  
• Akinyi Nzioki, Royal Netherlands Embassy
  
• Issa G. Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  
• John Ssenkumba, Uganda
  
• Mouhamadou Sy, Senegal
  
• Ngone Diop Tine, Senegal
  

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