Colin Darch and Peter G Underwood, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 - develops a discourse about the concept of FoI
 - discussion of the human rights claim appropriates the concepts of Hohfeldian analysis for more radical purposes in support of the idea that the state has a duty to implement FoI practices

Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, this book identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen’s relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality of the pervasive politics of patronage that characterise much of African practice.

Readership: Social activists, library and information science professionals, African studies specialists; publishers, legislators, politicians. Students of: law, politics, sociology and information science at the final year/postgraduate levels.

ISBN 1 84334 147 6
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 147 5
December 2009
336 pages  234 x 156mm  paperback