Movers and shakers : : social movements in Africa / / edited by Stephen Ellis, Ineke van Kessel.
Mobilization against apartheid, the campaign against blood diamonds, the women's movement in Liberia where Africa's first female head of state was elected in 2005: these are all examples of socially based movements that have had a major effect on Africa's recent history. Yet the most...
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| Superior document: | African dynamics, 8 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African dynamics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.