African Studies: Contextualizing Human Rights

here is no modern political history of Africa without a history of struggle—for the recognition of racial equality; for political emancipation; for the affirmation of political freedom; and for the realization of human rights. One of the earliest incidences of the struggle for the recognition of racial equality was during the Atlantic slave trade when many Africans resisted enslavement through shipboard insurrections against European slave traders. A famous tale

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