African struggles today
Subtitle: social movements since independence
By: Leo Zeilig and Peter Dwyer
Contributors: Dwyer, Peter
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781608461202
Subjects: Social conditions; Democratization; Civil society; Social movements; Post-apartheid era; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social movements and the working class in Africa; title: An epoch of uprisings : social movements in postcolonial Africa, 1945/98; title: Cracks in the monolith : social movements in post-apartheid South Africa; title: Social movements after the transition : choiceless democracies?; title: Frustrated transitions : social movements, protest, and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland; title: Social forums and the World Social Forum in Africa.