Banditry, Rebellion and Social Protest in Africa
Author | : Donald Crummey |
Publisher | : James Currey |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald Crummey |
Publisher | : James Currey |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald Crummey |
Publisher | : Heinemann International Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This important collection includes overview essays by Donald Crummey and Ralph Austen, and fifteen case studies set in the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Zaire, Namibia, Mozambique, Algeria, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephanie Cronin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134098103 |
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers: both major social classes and sectors the working class the peasantry the urban poor women marginal groups such as gypsies and slaves Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the great European social historians, and particularly inspired by Antonio Gramsci, the collection seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region, and to uncover ‘the politics of the people’.
Author | : Allen F. Isaacman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Paper commissioned by the Joint ACLS-SSRC Africa Committee to be presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2-6, 1989, Atlanta, Georgia.
Author | : Lungile Tshuma |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2024-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 166697014X |
Edited by Lungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu and Mbongeni Msimanga, Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans provides a rich array of protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into the motivations for protests, how protests are carried out and how those targeted by protests try to undermine the protesting movements. Organized into three parts, this book examines social media and social movements, online protest strategies, and media texts used in various protest movements within Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors shed light on the brutality of various post-colonial regimes in Africa while also giving the reader hope for the current movements that seek to wrestle their societies from the jaws of autocratic leaders. This book offers a theoretically rich and methodologically diverse engagement of protest cultures in countries like Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The wide tapestry of how these protests are formulated and executed speaks to Africa's diversity and dynamism. This book makes an important intellectual contribution on social and political movements and is relevant to policy makers and researchers in the social sciences and digital humanities.
Author | : William Finnegan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520342380 |
Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique—a naturally rich country—into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African lens, viewing the conflict as apartheid's "forward defense." This lens was shattered by what he witnessed and what he heard from Mozambicans, especially those who had lived with the bandidos armado, the "armed bandits" otherwise known as the Renamo rebels. The shifting, wrenching, ground-level stories that people told combine to form an account of the war more local and nuanced, more complex, more African—than anything that has been politically convenient to describe. A Complicated War combines frontline reporting, personal narrative, political analysis, and comparative scholarship to present a picture of a Mozambique harrowed by profound local conflicts—ethnic, religious, political and personal. Finnegan writes that South Africa's domination and destabilization are basic elements of Mozambique's plight, but he offers a subtle description and analysis that will allow us to see the post-apartheid region from a new, more realistic, if less comfortable, point of view.
Author | : Richard J. Reid |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191615927 |
Northeast Africa has one of the richest histories in the world, and yet also one of the most violent. Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands and their escarpment and lowland peripheries, stretching between the modern Eritrean Red Sea coast and the southern and eastern borderlands of present day Ethiopia. Sudanese and Somali frontiers are also examined insofar as they can be related to ethnic, political, and religious conflict, and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region since c.1800. Reid argues that this modern warfare is not solely the product of modern political 'failure', but rather has its roots in a network of frontier zones which are both violent and creative. Such borderlands have given rise to markedly militarised political cultures which are rooted in the violence of the nineteenth century, and which in recent decades are manifest in authoritarian systems of government. Reid thus traces the history of Amhara and Tigrayan imperialisms to the nationalist and ethnic revolutions which represented the march of volatile borderlands on the hegemonic centre. He suggests a new interpretation of Ethiopian and Eritrean history, arguing that the key to understanding the region's turbulent present lies in an appreciation of the role of the armed, and politically fertile, frontier in its deeper past.
Author | : William Beinart |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2001-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191587834 |
An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on that country and, to a greater extent than previous accounts, weaves economic and cultural history into the political narrative. Apartheid and industrialization, especially mining, are central theme, as is the rise of nationalism in the Afrikaner and African communities. But the author also emphasizes the neglected significance of rural experiences and local identities in shaping political consciousness. The roles played by such key figure as Smuts, Verwoerd, de Klerk, Plaatje, and Mandela are explored, while recent historiographical trends are reflected in analyses of rural protest, white cultural politics, the vitality of black urban life, and environmental decay. The book assesses the analysis of black reactions to apartheid, the rise of the ANC. The concluding chapter brings this seminal history up-to-date, tackling the issues and events from 1994-1999 - in particular the success of Mandela and the ANC in seeing through the end of apartheid rule. It also looks at the chances of a stable future for the new-found democracy in South Africa.
Author | : Bruce Vandervort |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134223749 |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.