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Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

By: Oyeniyi Abe

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Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

By: Oyeniyi Abe

This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global environment, especially when operating in high risks sectors such as oil and gas, mining, construction, banking, and health care amongst others. Understanding human rights responsibilities, impacts, and socially responsible behaviour for companies is therefore an essential component of corporate risk management in our current world. The release of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, an instrument consisting of 31 principles on this issue, has further underscored the emergence of a rapidly developing set of international law norms on human rights responsibilities of businesses and transnational corporations. It has also shaped the discourse on corporate accountability for human rights. In addition to minimizing litigation, financial and reputational risks, understanding and demonstrating corporate respect for human rights is vital to building a culture of trust and integrity amongst local communities, investors, and shareholders. While Africa has been at the receiving end of deleterious activities of corporate actors, it has failed to address corporate impunity and human rights violations by non-state actors. Questions abound revolving around the underpinnings of a corporate responsibility to respect human rights, that is, how non-western and particularly African conceptions of respect may help develop a beyond do no net harm approach to respect; policy discourses on human rights due diligence, human rights impact assessment; mandating corporate respect for human rights in both domestic and international law. This book examines, clarifies, and unpacks the guiding principles of a rights-based approach to development and social inclusion. It offers an excellent exposition of regulatory capacity, institutional efficacy, and democratic legitimacy of governance institutions that shape development including a comprehensive analysis of how states are shaping business and human rights discourses locally to develop a critical understanding of identified issues by exploring the latest theories through comparative lenses.

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Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

By: Oyeniyi Abe

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Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

By: Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

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Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

By: Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.

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Cambria Press

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1621967190

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Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

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