Achieng Maureen Akena writing in the Secular Society:
Political religion, particularly that exported from the US, is impeding the struggle for universal human rights in Africa and the two must be kept separateEarlier on open Global Rights, Indian journalist Parsa Rao argued that Asian and African societies must "frame the human rights debate through their own intellectual and cultural traditions." I agree; for too long, our societies have seen human rights as an external and foreign concept.
Unlike Rao and others writing for open Global Rights, however, I do not think this requires us to fully entangle human rights with religion. This is true even in Africa.
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