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  • 11 - The Inventors of Human Rights in Africa

  • from Part III - Colonial and Neocolonial Responses
  • Edited by A. Dirk Moses, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Marco Duranti, University of Sydney, Roland Burke, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book:
    Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
    Published online:
    24 June 2020
    Print publication:
    16 July 2020, pp 285-315

  • Summary

    In 1967, twelve years after Portugal’s admission to the UN, Franco Nogueira, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of the most important advocates of the multiple doctrines of exceptionality that governed the Portuguese postwar imperial ideology, stated that the Portuguese were solely responsible for the spread of the “notion of human rights and racial equality” in Africa. Speaking six years after the beginning of conflicts in Angola and ongoing racial discrimination across what Portugal termed its “overseas provinces” the idioms and repertoires of citizenship and human and social rights were appropriated in a particular way by the Portuguese authorities. This chapter investigates the embrace and deployment of human rights discourse by the Portuguese authoritarian empire. The study of the Portuguese case enables an additional understanding of the variegated historical dynamics, temporalities, and impacts of the human rights regime, providing another example, an understudied one, of the historical intersections of the global debates on human rights and national and imperial politics and policies.