TY - BOOK AU - Ekine,Sokari AU - Manji,Firoze TI - African awakening: the emerging revolutions SN - 9780857490216 AV - DT30.5 .A35583 2011 U1 - 960.33 PY - 2012/// CY - Cape Town PB - Pambazuka Press KW - Political violence KW - Africa KW - Local KW - Revolutions KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - LEMB KW - Africa, North N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; African awakenings: the courage to invent the future; Firoze Manji --; The never-ending revolution: perspectives from the African blogosphere; Sokari Ekine --; Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: history, interest and parallels; Explo Nani-Kofi --; Tunisia: the fall of the West's little dictator; Esam Al-Amin --; Gabon's lords of poverty; Khadija Sharife --; Tunisia's revolution: self-organisation for self-emancipation; Horace Campbell --; Aslema ya Tusis, au revoir Ben Ali; Mekakou Tegegn --; Tunisia and Egypt: revolutions without self-proclaimed revolutionaries; Horace Campbell --; Egypt: free at last, an inside look; Hassan El Ghayesh --; Chronicles of an Egyptian revolution: a protester's first-hand account; Hassan El Gayesh --; Egypt and the revolution in our minds; Nigel C. Gibson --; Egypt: women of the revolution; Fatma Naib --; 'The power is within us': a protest diary from Cameroon; Kah Walla --; Uganda elections: 'an exercise in shame-faced endorsement'; J. Oloka-Onyango --; Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire: the impact on women; Massan d'Almeida --; Awakening protests in Morocco and Western Sahara; Konstantina Isidoros --; Peoples' revolts in Burkina Faso; Lila Chouli --; North African dispatches: why Algeria is different; Imad Mesdoua --; Libya: behind the politics of humanitarian intervention; Mahmood Mamdani --; Swaziland: uprising in the slipstream of North Africa; Peter Kenworthy --; The lies behind the West's war on Libya; Jean-Paul Pougala --; South Africa: on the murder of Andries Tatane; Richard Pithouse --; Unrest in Algeria: the window is closing fast; Lakhdar Ghettas --; Whose dictator is Gaddafi?; Yash Tandon --; An African reflection on Tahrir Square; Mahmood Mamdani --; How might things move forward in Libya?; Yash Tandon --; The Tunisian revolution did not come out of nowhere; Sadri Khiari & Beatrice Hibou --; Imperial neurosis and the dangers of 'humanitarian' interventionism; Yash Tandon --; International financial institutions and Egypt; Adam Hanieh --; Neoliberal threats to North Africa; Patrick Bond --; 2011: an Arab springtime?; Samir Amin --; Libya - the true costs of war; Charles Abugre --; Appendix: Further readings from Pambazuka News UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/2012313713-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/2012313713-d.html ER -