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Contentious politics in Africa : identity, conflict, and social change

Title: Contentious politics in Africa : identity, conflict, and social change / edited by Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o.
Author: Africa Conference (Tex.) (2013 : University of Texas at Austin)
Publication: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]

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Description

xxiv, 354 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

African world series

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

Papers from the 2013 Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contentious politics and political change in Africa: introduction / Toyin Falola & Wanjala S. Nasong'o -- Violence, war, and political change -- The Hobbesian concept of self-defense and violence in twenty-first century Africa : a critique / Oladele Abiodun Balogun & Moyosore Balogun -- The war that time forgot : a historiographical examination of the concentration camps of the Second South African War / Kevin Karaki -- Objectivity, ethics, and the Nigerian media in conflict reportage : the case for peace and development journalism / Rofiah Olateju Animashaun -- Chronicling the Nigerian Civil War : a lexico-semantic analysis of Wole Soyinka's Season of anomy and Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Juliet Nkane Ekpang -- Socioeconomic change and development -- Socio-economic and structural-political change and continuity : post-liberation South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique / Alexius Amtaika -- Women's movements and political transformation in Kenya : a historical survey / Martha Musalia & Joseph Wasonga -- The politics of evangelization through education and development : Marianist projects in Kenya / C'line A. Jacquemin -- Emotions, displacement, and the new Kenyan / Besi Brillian Muhonja & Gillianne Obaso -- NGO-government interactions in South Africa : possibilities of cross-sector cooperation / Vernon Damani Johnson & Kirsten Lorgen-Knapp -- The role of the southern African development community in the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe / Kudzai Goto & Malimela Langelihle -- Social movements and identity politics -- Some epistemic, taxonomic, and methodological issues in the consideration of social movements : Niger Delta militancy and "Boko Haram" in Nigeria / P. Okechukwu Eke -- The tyranny of ethno-religious identities and expressions and the survival of the Nigerian state in the twenty-first century / Mike O. Odey -- Globalization and socio-cultural transformations in Nigeria : emerging trends, challenges, and prospects / Israel Dantata Sule -- Fragmented stability : neoliberalism and the politics of belonging in anglophone Cameroon / Nicholas A. Jackson -- The indigene/settler dichotomy and Nigeria's quest for nationhood / Ntim Gyakari Esew -- Politics of revolts and protests -- Youth revolts in apartheid South Africa and contemporary Tunisia : an appraisal / Ntim Gyakari Esew & Agbo Uchechukwu Johnson -- Expressions of dissent and protests : post-election reactions in Nigeria and the future conduct of peaceful elections / Babatunde A. Ojedokun -- Governmentalities of policing protests in military and democratic dispensations in Nigeria : a comparative analysis of June 12, 1993, and January 2012 / Gbemisola Abdul-Jelil Animasawun & Yinka Ahmed Aluko.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1644

ISBN

9781611637427 (alk. paper)
1611637422 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2016002651

OCLC

935784540

Conference

Africa Conference (Tex.) (2013 : University of Texas at Austin)

Title

Contentious politics in Africa : identity, conflict, and social change / edited by Toyin Falola, Wanjala S. Nasong'o.

Publisher

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African world series

Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1960

Added Author

Falola, Toyin, editor.

Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-1644

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