This article critically analyzes human rights socialization in Africa through the lens of the draft African Human Rights Action Plan (AHRAP). It argues that the AHRAP presents a framework for human rights socialization, and it speaks to human rights socialization in distinctive ways. The article demonstrates that the AHRAP relies on African and international influences and seeks to propagate norms inspired by these influences. It analyzes three key issues from the AHRAP and discusses how those issues shape understanding of continental human rights socialization in Africa. These issues are the multiple roles and positions of the African Union, the identity of actors to whom socialization processes apply or ought to apply, and the nature of norms which are the focus of socialization efforts. The article’s analysis of these issues along with the AHRAP’s reliance on African and other influences reveal a path for human rights socialization in Africa that is both challenging and promising.

本文通过非洲人权行动计划（AHRAP）草案，批判性地分析了非洲的人权社会化。它认为，AHRAP提出了人权社会化的框架，并以独特的方式谈论人权社会化。文章表明，AHRAP依赖于非洲和国际影响，并试图传播受这些影响启发的规范。它分析了AHRAP的三个关键问题并讨论这些问题如何影响对非洲大陆人权社会化的理解。这些问题是非洲联盟的多重角色和立场，社会化进程适用或应该适用的行为者的身份，以及作为社会化努力焦点的规范的性质。文章对这些问题的分析，以及AHRAP对非洲和其他影响的依赖，揭示了一条既充满挑战又充满希望的非洲人权社会化道路。