Revolt and protest : student politics and activism in sub-Saharan Africa
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Revolt and protest : student politics and activism in sub-Saharan Africa
（International library of African studies, 20）
Tauris Academic Studies, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-326) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: Politics, students and protest Chapter 2: Student activism, structural adjustment and the 'democratic transition' Chapter 3: Researching students Chapter 4: Reform, revolt and student activism in Zimbabwe Chapter 5: Political Change and student resistance in Senegal Chapter 6: The meaning of student protest in the democratic transition Conclusion: The return of the student-intelligentsia
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