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Acknowledgements x
List of abbreviations xiii
The African human rights system, activist forces, and international institutions: an introduction 1
Conventional conceptions of international human rights institutions 12
Introduction 12
Conventional conceptions of international institutions in general 14
Conventional conceptions of international human rights institutions 40
Summary of the arguments 61
Conventional conceptions of the African system for the promotion and protection of human and peoples' rights 63
Introduction 63
A brief overview of the African system 65
Conceptions of the African system as weak and ineffectual 67
Conceptions of the ideal African system as a panacea 74
Conceptions of the textual or organizational reform of the African system as the key to its success 75
Enforcement-centrism in the conventional conceptions of the African system 78
Voluntary compliance-centrism in the conventional conceptions of the African system 80
How does the African system fare overall under the conventional evaluative models? 82
Are conventional conceptions of the African system adequate? 88
Summary of the arguments 90
The impact of the African system within Nigeria 91
Introduction 91
Impact on judicial decision-making and action 96
Impact on executive action 116
Impact on legislative action 127
Impact on civil society actors and struggles 134
Assessing the overall impact of the African system within Nigeria 141
Factors that have facilitated or militated against the African system's impact within Nigeria 148
Summary of the arguments 153
The utilization of the African system within South Africa 155
Introduction 155
Impact on judicial decision-making and action 156
Impact on executive deliberation and action 177
Impact on legislative debate and action 186
Impact on the work of civil society actors 191
Assessing the overall impact of the African system within South Africa 200
Factors that have facilitated or militated against the African system's impact within South Africa 208
Summary of the arguments 218
Limited deployment of the African system within African states: further evidence and a general evaluation 220
Introduction 220
Impact on executive thought and action 224
Impact on judicial decision-making and action 236
Impact on legislative action 245
Impact on the activities of civil society actors 250
Specifying the conditions for the optimization of the domestic impact of the African system 253
Summary of the arguments 272
Toward an extended measure of IHI effectiveness: a quasi-constructivist perspective 273
Introduction 273
Reducing the emphasis on the domestic analogy 276
Reducing the emphasis on the textual appropriateness and/or institutional capacity of IHIs 280
Reaching beyond (while retaining) the state compliance measure 284
Constitutive role of activist forces in IHI effectiveness 285
Quasi-constructivism as broadly explanatory of the ACHPR phenomenon 287
Hypothesizing the measure of IHI effectiveness 293
Conclusion 296
Select Bibliography 302
Index 323
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