Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip J. McConnaughay. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 308 pp.
In 1961, just as the countries of Africa were acquiring their independence, a junior Washington Evening Star reporter named Smith Hempstone, having just returned from a three-year-long odyssey across the continent, pessimistically opined:
All that can be said at this juncture is that Western ...