Africa e diritti umani : alcuni rilievi antropologici

The Human Rights topic is increasing its relevance in the field of legal studies and in the agenda of inter/transnational actors. The sociology of Law is deeply engaged in this dialogue, but some of its contributions seem to share a common lack of concern about the dimensions of cultural legitimacy and politics of imagination. Refusing the “simplistic” vision of «legal transplants», the article outlines a multidisciplinary frame, trying to merge the anthropological and the socio-legal knowledge. In order to stress the profitability of this overlapping, the author (briefly) sketches some features of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights. The peculiarities of the “African approach” should demonstrate the need for a deepest investigation of cultural life of rights in terms of their underlying representations of the world.