Revolt and protest : student politics and activism in sub-Saharan Africa / Leo Zeilig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeilig, Leo.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

International library of African studies ; v. 20.

International library of African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Students--Political activity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Students.

Students--Political activity.

Student movements.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Student movements--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 336 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies ; New York : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-326) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

1845114760

9781845114763

OCLC:

154698751

Publisher Number:

99944631372