Empowering people
Subtitle: building community, civil associations and legality in Africa : proceedings of an international conference of civil associations held in Arusha, Tanzania, August 1991
By: edited by Richard Sandbrook and Mohamed Halfani ; [foreword by Edward Broadbent ; reflections by Julius K. Nyerere].
Contributors: Halfani, M. S.; Sandbrook, Richard.; University of Toronto. Centre for Urban and Community Studies.
Publisher: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Political participation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Social movements -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Protest movements -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Description: In Africa, widespread disillusionment with government has inflated expectations concerning the soci-political role of indigenous civil associations. Popular organizations are expected not only to respond to immediate needs, but also to help empower their hitherto marginalized or oppressed constituences. How are these organizations confronting the inevitable pitfalls and constraints to meet these challenges?

This is the key question which social activists from eight sub-Saharan countries tackle in this volume. It is not an academic treatise on popular empowerment. It is instead a forum in which activists about their pressing concerns, achievements, and hopes. To hear their voices is to renew hope in a less oppressive and more prosperous future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.