Movers and shakers
Subtitle: social movements in Africa
By: edited by Stephen Ellis, Ineke van Kessel.
Contributors: Ellis, Stephen, 1953-; Kessel, Ineke van.
Series: African dynamics -- 8
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789004180130
Subjects: Social movements -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : African social movements or social movements in Africa? / Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel; title: Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans; title: Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah; title: African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie; title: The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink; title: Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest; title: Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani; title: Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem; title: An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares; title: The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? / Ineke van Kessel; title: 'Campus cults' in Nigeria : the development of an anti-social movement / Stephen Ellis.