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Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Human Rights as a Metaphor -The Metaphorof Human Rights -The Grand Narrative of Human Rights -The Metaphor of theSavage -The Metaphor of the Victim -The Metaphor of the Savior Chapter 2.Human Rights as an Ideology -The Authors of Human Rights -A Holy Trinity:Liberalism, Democracy, and Human Rights -Conventional Doctrinalists -TheConceptualizers -The Cultural Pluralists -Political Strategists andInstrumentalists Chapter 3. Human Rights and the African Fingerprint -Africain a Rights Universe -Human Rights in Precolonial Africa -The Dialectic ofRights and Duties -The Duty/Rights Conception -Whither Africa? Chapter 4.Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism -The Problem of Religious Rights-Demonizing the "Other" -Proselytization in Africa -The Legal Invisibility ofIndigenous Religions -Ideals Versus Realities -The Moral Equivalency ofCultures* Chapter 5. The African State, Human Rights, and Religion -Religionand African Statehood -Identity Disorientation -The Culture of Silence andPostcolonialism -Counterpenetration as a Farce -Benin Returns to Its RootsChapter 6. The Limits of Rights Discourse -South Africa: the Human RightsState -The Rights Framework as an ANC Strategy: A Snapshot of Apartheid -TheEvolution of a Rights Approach -The Compromise of the Interim Constitution*-The 1996 Constitution as a Normative Continuum -The ANC's Gradualist RightsApproach -Land Reform as a Central Plank of the Struggle -Women inPost?Apartheid South Africa -The Status and Orientation of Post-ApartheidCourts -Humanizing the Instruments of Coercion -Rights Discourse Not aPanacea Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments