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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Bilden av Afrika och dess historia : en diskursanalytisk studie av ett biblioteks böcker om Afrikas historia, utifrån omslag, baksides- och innersidestexter

Zjajo, Mirza January 2010 (has links)
The purpose of this master's thesis is to examine how a Swedish public library's collection of books on African history looks like, who the writers are and how Africa and its history areportrayed. The focus of the analysis is on the front and back covers and in some cases on theinformation texts inside the books. The chosen library is the city library of Umeå. The 15books examined were found on the shelf classified as Kp – the classification for African history according to the Swedish SAB-classification system. The analysis is based on discourse analysis and on Norman Fairlough's critical discourse analysis in particular. Edward Said's postcolonial theories are also used. The results show that the majority of the writers are Western European or North American men, active as historians or journalists. There are veryfew female writers or writers of African heritage. The views on Africa and its history are generally positive when it comes to the pre-colonial history of the continent, while the history of the colonial era or contemporary history tends to be viewed upon negatively.
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Afrikanska stadgan - En komparativ studie om "The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights"

Westin, Lisa January 2010 (has links)
Jag har valt att studera uppkomsten av The African Charter On Human and Peoples Rights. Mitt huvudsyfte är att se vilken roll Afrikas historia har spelat för utformandet av den afrikanska stadgan för mänskliga rättigheter och vid sidan av detta även ta reda på om stadgan är effektiv. Jag har också valt att göra en jämförelse med Europakonventionen för att se vad som skiljer de två regionala systemen för mänskliga rättigheter åt. Jag har sökt information, granskat och tolkat det jag läst med hjälp av rättsvetenskaplig metod och en kvalitativ textanalys utefter en teori om universalism och en världssystemanalys. Något som krävt mycket och noggrann läsning.Mitt resultat pekar på en relativt ineffektiv stadga med starka regionala värderingar och stort fokus på kontinentens historia av kolonialism och de koloniala arven detta gett. En historia av förtryck som gjort det svårt för de afrikanska utvecklingsstaterna att ta plats i den globala världen och världssamfundet. Något som visar att universalism i vissa fall kan gå att nå, eftersom det finns lika många skillnader som likheter mellan det afrikanska och europeiska dokumentet för mänskliga rättigheter. Dock med en tanke om att regionalism kanske ger bättre förutsättningar än universalism. / I have chosen to study the origin of The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. My main purpose has been to find out the importance of the African history in the shaping of the charter. Besides that I have choose to make a comparison with the European Convention to see what separates the two regional systems on human rights from each other. Furthermore I have tried to find out if the African charter is effective.I have searched for information, reviewed and interpreted what I have read in both books and human rights documents on the subject to find my answers. My results points out to a relatively inefficient charter with regional values and a focus on the history of colonialism and the colonial legacies. A history of oppression that made it difficult for the African developing-countries to make themself a place in the global world and the international community.My results also shows that universalism is something that is possible to achieve since there are as many differences as similarities between the African and European document on human rights.However, with an idea that regionalism may offer better conditions than universalism.

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