Revolt and Protest
Subtitle: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (International Library of African Studies)
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies; In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781845114763
Subjects: Higher & further education; Political activism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Sub-Saharan Africa; International Relations - General; Political Ideologies - General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General
Description: "The evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the recent period of 'democratic transitions' in the 1990s, Leo Zeilig discusses the widespread involvement of student activism in democratic struggles across contemporary Africa and focuses on two case studies, Senegal and Zimbabwe. He provides an historical examination of the student-intelligentsia on the continent that played a crucial role in the independence struggles across much of Africa, leading and organising nationalist movements and outlines the development of grass-root activism. Zeilig demonstrates how students shape and are shaped by national processes of political change and popular protest and reveals both the continuities and transformations in student activism in an era of austerity, crisis and poverty."--Bloomsbury Publishing.