Human Rights and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Center for Non-Western Studies at HU hots a lecture on the topic Human Rights and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The event will take place via Zoom on November 30 at 7:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome. A Zoom link will be provided when we get closer to the event.

The speaker for this event is Dr. Semahagn Abebe. Dr Abebe received an LLB degree from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), an LLM degree from the University of Amsterdam, and master’s (LLM) and doctoral degrees (PhD) at the University of Goettingen. Dr. Abebe worked as a public prosecutor and lecturer in Ethiopia. Dr. Abebe is the author of The Last Post-Cold-War Socialist Federation: Ethnicity, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia (Routledge 2014). He has also published in, among others, McGill Journal of International Sustainable Development and Law, Saint Louis University Journal of Law, Journal of African Studies and Development, and Goettingen Journal of International Law. His research focuses on human rights, transitional and traditional justice, and constitutional, developmental, and cultural issues pertinent to Sub-Saharan Africa. He has extensive teaching and research experience. In 2013-2014, he was O’ Brien Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, and in 2012-2013, he was a Bank of Ireland post-doctoral fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, a visiting assistant professor at the Human Rights Institute of University of Connecticut. He is currently assistant professor of international studies and political science at Endicott College.