Romola Adeola & Michael Gyan Nyarko 
The Art of Human Rights [PDF ebook] 
Commingling Art, Human Rights and the Law in Africa

Chapter1. Arts, Human Rights and the Law in Africa: An Introduction.- Chapter2. Critical Pedagogy of International Legal Education in Africa: An Exploration of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Music.- Chapter3. Photographic Silhouettes and Human Rights in Africa: Confronting and Deterring Female Genital Mutilation in Aida Silvestri’s Unsterile Clinic.- Chapter4. Literature and Human Rights in Africa: Making a Case for a Trauma-Sensitive Approach in Proving Persecution in Asylum Processes through Adichie’s The American Embassy.- Chapter5. Photojournalism and Human Rights in Africa: Stories from the Field.- Chapter6. Soap Operas and Human Rights in Africa: African Feminist and Human Rights Perspective on the Representation of Black Women in the Media.- Chapter7. Commemoration and Human Rights in Africa: Revisiting the Politics of Memory through Visual Arts in Kenya.- Chapter8. Sculpting and Human Rights: An Exploration of Fasasi Abeedeen Tunde’s Works in Italy.- Chapter9. Theatre and Human Rights in Africa: Historical and Literary Representations in South Africa.- Chapter10. Music and Human Rights in Africa: the Role of Music in the Promotion of Human Rights in Uganda.

Romola Adeola is a Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (South Africa). She holds a doctorate in law, has consulted extensively for African governments on human rights and has served as an expert for various organisations including the African Union.  She lectures human rights law with specific interests in areas of human rights law and policy.

Michael Gyan Nyarko is a legal practitioner and researcher at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (South Africa). His experience has largely been in the areas of human rights and democratisation in Africa, implementation/impact of human rights treaties, litigation before African regional and sub-regional human rights courts and treaty bodies.

Adebayo Okeowo is an Advocacy Coordinator at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is responsible for developing effective strategies used in campaigning and advocating for specific human rights issues. He engages in activities which seek to enhance the human rights work being carried out by the Centre for Human Rights through its various programme areas.
Frans Viljoen is Director of the Centre for Human Rights in Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is also the Academic Coordinator of the LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa), presented by the Centre in collaboration with twelve partner law faculties across Africa, including the University of the Western Cape. He has been involved in advocacy and training in and on the African regional human rights system, and published widely on international human rights law.