Empowering African Governance: Unveiling the Path to Accountability and Emancipation

Author: Micha Wiebusch
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Have you ever felt frustrated when you are working on something and someone comes along and tells you, “you should do it this way”? Or, they even say “you should do it my way”. Or worse, they just push you aside and do it themselves, or they threaten or even apply physical force if you do not do it their way. That sense of annoyance, when receiving the “advice”, and in its extreme variation, the loss of dignity when being physically coerced, is at the core of this book.

While those feelings are discussed primarily in an African context, the book acknowledges the occurrence of those feelings in different geographical spaces, cultures, social settings and throughout time.

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