African awakening
Subtitle: the emerging revolutions
By: edited by Firoze Manji and Sokari Ekine
Publisher: Pambazuka Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780857490216
Subjects: Politics and government; Political violence; Revolutions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African awakenings: the courage to invent the future  -- Firoze Manji; title: The never-ending revolution: perspectives from the African blogosphere  -- Sokari Ekine; title: Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: history, interest and parallels  -- Explo Nani-Kofi; title: Tunisia: the fall of the West's little dictator  -- Esam Al-Amin; title: Gabon's lords of poverty  -- Khadija Sharife; title: Tunisia's revolution: self-organisation for self-emancipation  -- Horace Campbell; title: Aslema ya Tusis, au revoir Ben Ali  -- Mekakou Tegegn; title: Tunisia and Egypt: revolutions without self-proclaimed revolutionaries  -- Horace Campbell; title: Egypt: free at last, an inside look  -- Hassan El Ghayesh; title: Chronicles of an Egyptian revolution: a protester's first-hand account  -- Hassan El Gayesh; title: Egypt and the revolution in our minds  -- Nigel C. Gibson; title: Egypt: women of the revolution  -- Fatma Naib; title: 'The power is within us': a protest diary from Cameroon  -- Kah Walla; title: Uganda elections: 'an exercise in shame-faced endorsement'  -- J. Oloka-Onyango; title: Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: the impact on women  -- Massan d'Almeida; title: Awakening protests in Morocco and Western Sahara  -- Konstantina Isidoros; title: Peoples' revolts in Burkina Faso  -- Lila Chouli; title: North African dispatches: why Algeria is different  -- Imad Mesdoua; title: Libya: behind the politics of humanitarian intervention  -- Mahmood Mamdani; title: Swaziland: uprising in the slipstream of North Africa  -- Peter Kenworthy; title: The lies behind the West's war on Libya  -- Jean-Paul Pougala; title: South Africa: on the murder of Andries Tatane  -- Richard Pithouse; title: Unrest in Algeria: the window is closing fast  -- Lakhdar Ghettas; title: Whose dictator is Gaddafi?  -- Yash Tandon; title: An African reflection on Tahrir Square  -- Mahmood Mamdani; title: How might things move forward in Libya?  -- Yash Tandon; title: The Tunisian revolution did not come out of nowhere  -- Sadri Khiari & Beatrice Hibou; title: Imperial neurosis and the dangers of 'humanitarian' interventionism  -- Yash Tandon; title: International financial institutions and Egypt  -- Adam Hanieh; title: Neoliberal threats to North Africa  -- Patrick Bond; title: 2011: an Arab springtime?  -- Samir Amin; title: Libya - the true costs of war  -- Charles Abugre; title: Appendix: Further readings from Pambazuka News.