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| Title: | The One-Party State and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa with Particular Reference to Political Rights |
| Author: | Wanda, B.P. |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | African Journal of International and Comparative Law |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 756-770 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | one-party systems human rights offences against human rights Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
| External link: | https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/afjincol3&id=780&collection=journals&index=journals/afjincol |
| Abstract: | In the initial years of independence, a number of English-speaking countries in Africa installed Westminster-type parliamentary systems. By contrast to these multiparty systems, there were the single-party States, mostly in the former French colonies. But as the experience of independence wore on, the single-party system became the predominant pattern. This paper describes some of the characteristic features of the one-party State in black Africa and examines whether the one-party system has been compatible with the observance of human rights. It argues that the one-party system has failed to provide a just and fair system of government for the African people. The one-party State has often degenerated into harsh and arbitrary rule, disregarding all norms of human rights. The paper focuses on the denial of political rights in the one-party State, notably the freedom of association, the freedom of assembly and the freedom to participate freely in the government of one's own country. Notes, ref. |