This chapter provides an overview of contemporary theories of human rights in African philosophy. It will focus on three theories from scholars working in African moral-political thought, namely, (a) the (moral) status (Metz 2011), (b) the personhood-based (Ikuenobe 2018), and (c) the recognition theories of human rights (Allsobrook 2023). I describe these theories as ‘contemporary’ because they were developed in a generation after the one of the scholars who pioneered the philosophical discussions around the theme of personhood and human rights in African philosophy—the classical theories are dated roughly from the late 1970s to 1999, and the contemporary ones are from the year 2000. The contemporary theories of human rights are an outgrowth, a response, and a continuation of the pioneers’ initial contribution to the conversations and debates on human rights in African philosophy. The previous chapter explored how scholars in the classical period contributed to human rights. This chapter philosophically considers how scholars in the contemporary period have advanced the conversation about the place, relevance, and meaning of human rights in African philosophy.