Prior to that he was executive director of human rights watch africa in washington dc for two years he is the author of towards an islamic reformation civil liberties human rights and international law 1990 and editor of a numerous volumes on human rights issues from a cross cultural perspective. The authors of this volume seek to contribute to the clarification of the very difficult conceptual and practical questions surrounding the legitimization and permanent protection of human rights in non western cultural contexts specifically in this case in africa. 1 cultural transformation and human rights in african societies abdullahi a an naim and jeffrey hammond 2 human rights and cultural branding who speaks and how martin chanock 3 the banjul charter the case for an african cultural fingerprint makau mutua 4. Abdullahi ahmed an naim human rights under african constitutions realizing the promise for ourselves cultural transformation and human rights in africa london zed books 2002 proselytization and communal self determination in africa maryknoll ny orbis books 1999. The cultural transformation approach 2 the rationale and organization of this hook j i cultural transformation and human rights in african societies 13 abdullahi a an naim and jeffrey hammond the human rights paradigm in context 14 culture and cultural transformation 21 cultural transformation and human rights in