Movers and shakers : social movements in Africa / / edited by Stephen Ellis, Ineke van Kessel.
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| Superior document: | African dynamics, 8 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African dynamics ;
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| Physical Description: | vii, 257 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : African social movements or social movements in Africa? / Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel
- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans
- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah
- African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie
- The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink
- Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest
- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani
- Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem
- An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares
- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? / Ineke van Kessel
- 'Campus cults' in Nigeria : the development of an anti-social movement / Stephen Ellis.