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.

• Introduction-Makau MutuaPART I. DEFINING CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY IN EAST AFRICAChapter 1. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges-Makau MutuaChapter 2. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya-Betty K. MurungiPART II. INTERROGATING NGO MANDATES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ESC RIGHTSChapter 3. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs-Sylvia TamaleChapter 4. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective-Joe Oloka-OnyangoChapter 5. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity-Willy MutungaChapter 6. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State-Jacinta K. MuteshiPART III: DONORS AND GRANTEES: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCESChapter 7. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities-Connie Ngondi-HoughtonChapter 8. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya-Karuti KanyingaPART IV STATE/CIVIL SOCIETY RELATIONSChapter 9. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change-Livingstone SewanyanaChapter 10. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs-J. Wanjiku MianoPART V. NGO INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIESChapter 11. The African Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in Human Rights-L. Muthoni WanyekiChapter 12. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs-Dani W. NabuderePART VI. SOUTH/SOUTH AND SOUTH/NORTH NGO RELATIONSChapter 13. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy-Margaret A. BurnhamChapter 14. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa-Shaila Gupta and Alycia KellmanConclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Africa-Chris Maina PeterNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

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.

• Introduction-Makau MutuaPART I. DEFINING CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY IN EAST AFRICAChapter 1. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges-Makau MutuaChapter 2. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya-Betty K. MurungiPART II. INTERROGATING NGO MANDATES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ESC RIGHTSChapter 3. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs-Sylvia TamaleChapter 4. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective-Joe Oloka-OnyangoChapter 5. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity-Willy MutungaChapter 6. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State-Jacinta K. MuteshiPART III: DONORS AND GRANTEES: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCESChapter 7. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities-Connie Ngondi-HoughtonChapter 8. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya-Karuti KanyingaPART IV STATE/CIVIL SOCIETY RELATIONSChapter 9. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change-Livingstone SewanyanaChapter 10. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs-J. Wanjiku MianoPART V. NGO INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIESChapter 11. The African Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in Human Rights-L. Muthoni WanyekiChapter 12. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs-Dani W. NabuderePART VI. SOUTH/SOUTH AND SOUTH/NORTH NGO RELATIONSChapter 13. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy-Margaret A. BurnhamChapter 14. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa-Shaila Gupta and Alycia KellmanConclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Africa-Chris Maina PeterNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments