Human Rights NGOs in East Africa Political and Normative Tensions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
Biographical note: Makau Mutua is Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law, Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, and Director of the Human Rights Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. He is the author of Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press
Main description: Critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in East Africa, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions in the region. In particular, the book seeks to understand the political and normative challenges that face this young but vibrant civil society in the vortex of globalization