Trade unions, burial societies, students, religious and gender movements, riots and mafias. Not to mention class. The kaleidoscope of African social movements
is complex and broad. But their histories have strong common threads -
the experience of past oppression and the constant struggle for an
identity that will encompass survival. How have they contributed to the
nature of African civil society and the formation of democracy? The chapters are a living dialogue on the interpretation of these movements, and a critical and analytical appraisal of the African intellectual heritage itself. The book brings together a vast array of writers and topics from all over Africa
- from bread riots in Tunisia, Communist Parties in Sudan, the "Kaduna
Mafia" in Nigeria, burial societies in Zimbabwe, and the working class
in Algeria.
