VIRUS IN MANDELA’S LEGACY: An Analysis of World Human Rights Issues - Couverture souple

Denis, Desmond Phinton; Edward, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1980792240 ISBN 13 : 9781980792246

Editeur : Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

Hence this book throws light on human rights issues around the world, the writer decides to adopt the use of metaphor by using the title “Virus in Mandela’s Legacy”. Nelson Mandela remains symbolic to global human rights and freedom of the oppressed, therefore any phenomenon that disrupts this standard is a cankerworm, a virus eating up his legacy. This book holistically examines the apartheid policy in South Africa and the subsequent liberation struggle by the courageous African people. In order to x-ray this to the comprehension of all and sundry, the author employs to describe intrinsically the role played by Nelson Mandela pointing out how he ultimately swallowed the glory of other key actors. The virus in Mandela’s legacy, also puts a spotlight on some other world events that perniciously contradicts the ideology of this world acclaimed freedom legend. According to Mandela ‘…for my long walk is not yet ended’, this means that there are more Human Rights hurdles ahead. The struggle for freedom can never be completely achieved because oppression and violations of human rights is a continuum that appears in different forms, time and space. Yesterday there were human rights abuses in South Africa in form of apartheid, today its killings in the name of xenophobia in the same South Africa. At the turn of 19th century, it was slave trade but today it is either under- aged sexual exploitation of teenage girls or the illegal harnessing of tissues and ovaries for stem cell research. The prevalence of human organs trafficking especially Kidney is on the increase. African girls are exported to the western world only to be forced into prostitution and all forms of dehumanizing sexual acts. In Nigeria, the people of south-eastern origin were massacred especially the Ibos during the Nigeria-Biafra conflict, today Boko Haram and Cattle herdsmen have claimed several lives yet these killings are scarcely reported by international media houses. In the Middle East, journalists have been captured and brutally killed by terrorists and Jihadists. The rights of refugees have been trampled upon by governments that parade as custodians of human rights. Bloggers have been jailed severally by many governments. Members of ‘Pussy Riot’ music group were imprisoned in Russia. Eskinda Nega, an Ethiopian journalist, faced the same fate. Eren Keskin has spent years in jail for criticizing Turkish government on behalf of the Kurdish minorities. The Kurds have severally been brutalized and killed by the Iraqis. And so on and so forth. These contravene the individual’s civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. A true egalitarian society could be attained when people learn to “live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”. Through this book, the author calls for the emergence of true freedom activists that could uphold the legacy of Mandela and other past freedom icons by standing up against oppression meted out not only to them but to others who may be weak or at a disadvantaged point. Governments should as well own up to their responsibilities when their mistakes are unearthed rather than victimizing the people in order to pursue a shameful and continued pathway shrouded in secrecy and deceits. “The highest wisdom is that which releases us from the matrix of materiality and catapults us into the bossom of pure consciousness and energy. It's on this level of consciousness that we attain connection to wealth and access to peace, harmony and balance. The most divine book, the highest connection to the Source is that which you find within yourself.”  

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1980792240
• ISBN 13: 9781980792246
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 203
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