Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa - Couverture rigide

Zeilig, Leo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845114760 ISBN 13 : 9781845114763

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leo Zeilig has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africa’s most important political thinkers and activists. Leo is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy―the radical African-studies journal founded by activists and scholars in 1974―and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845114760
• ISBN 13: 9781845114763
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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