Revolt and protest: student politics and activism in sub-Saharan Africa
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Main Author: Zeilig, Leo 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Tauris Academic Studies 2007
Series:International library of African studies v. 20
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
DE-706
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-326) and index
Politics, students and protest: the making of the student intelligentsia -- Contemporary student activism in sub-Saharan Africa -- Reform, revolt and student activism in Zimbabwe -- Political change and student resistance in Senegal -- Students of the transition speak: the meaning of student protest
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 336 pages)
ISBN:1435649761
1845114760
9781435649767
9781845114763
9780755618965

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