Research Catalog

Title

Protest and power in black Africa. Edited by Robert I. Rothberg and Ali A. Mazrui.

Author

Rotberg, Robert I.

Publication

New York, Oxford University Press, 1970.

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Additional Authors

• Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin
• Mazrui, Ali AlʹAmin
• Harvard University. Center for International Affairs

Description

xxx, 1274 p. maps.; 24 cm.

Summary

Compilation of essays comprising a comparison of social movements of resistance to the dominant role of Europe in political leadership in Africa south of Sahara - gives historical and theoretical insights into the workings of African politics, and covers political problems, the role of UK, the role of Germany, the role of France, the emergence of interest groups and political parties, issues of sovereignty and diplomacy, etc. Bibliography pp. 1197 to 1213.

Subject

• Nationalism > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > History
• Africa South of the Sahara

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 1197-1213.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Robert I. Rotberg -- I. Resistance to conquest -- The Moorosi Rebellion : Lesotho, 1879 / Anthony Atmore -- Resistance to the German invasion of the Tanganyikan coast, 1888-1891 / Robert D. Jackson -- Samori and resistance to the French / Yves Person -- Adwa 1896 : the resounding protest / Sven Rubenson -- II. Rebellions against alien rule -- The Sudanese Mahdiya / L. Carl Brown -- Bai Bureh and the Sierra Leone Hut Tax War of 1898 / LaRay Denzer and Michael Crowder -- The Zulu disturbances in Natal / Shula Marks -- The Nyabingi cult of southwestern Uganda / Elizabeth Hopkins -- Psychological stress and the question of identity : Chilembwe's revolt reconsidered / Robert I. Rotberg -- III. The religious expression of discontent -- The Gusii rebels / Audrey Wipper -- The affirmation of things past : Alar Ayong and Bwiti as movements of protest in central and northern Gabon / James W. Fernandez --^
• Religious protest and social change : the origins of the Aladura movement in western Nigeria / Robert Cameron Mitchell -- A West African Islamic movement : Hamallism in French West Africa / Pierre Alexandre -- The Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina / Andrew D. Roberts -- IV. The emergence of pressure groups and political parties -- The National Congress of British West Africa, 1918-1935 / Martin Kilson -- Political associations in western Kenya / J.M. Lonsdale -- The emergence of the Tanganyika African National Union in the Lake Province / Andrew Maguire -- The Union des Populations du Cameroun in rebellion : the integrative backlash of insurgency / Willard Johnson -- V. The economic expression of discontent -- Trade union, political pressure group, or mass movement? The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa / Sheridan W. Johns, III -- The Bugandan trade boycott : a study in tribal, political, and economic nationalism / Dharam P. Ghai --^
• Nigerian politics and the general strike of 1964 / Robert Melson -- Nonviolence revisited / Leo Kuper -- VI. The literary expression of protest -- Literary protest in French-speaking Africa / Gerald Moore -- Political protest in the African novel in English / John Povey -- An early Angolan protest : the radical journalism of Jose de Fontes Pereira (1823-1891) / Douglas L. Wheeler -- VII. Revolutions, coups, and readjustments in the post-independence era -- The coup in Rwanda / Rene Lemarchand -- The Zanzibari Revolution : African protest in a racially plural society / Michael F. Lofchie -- Rebellion and the Congo / M. Crawford Young -- The fragility of stability : the fall of the Nigerian federal government, 1966 / James O'Connell -- The coups in Upper Volta, Dahomey, and the Central African Republic / Victor T. Le Vine -- Privilege and protest as integrative factors : the case of Buganda's status in Uganda / Ali A. Mazrui --^
• Kumanyana and Rwenzururu : two responses to ethnic inequality / Martin R. Doornbos -- VIII. Sovereignty and diplomacy in post-independence Africa -- Socialism as a mode of international protest : the case of Tanzania / Ali A. Mazrui -- The Organization of African Unity as an instrument and forum of protest / Yashpal Tandon -- Postlude: Toward a theory of protest / Ali A. Mazrui.

LCCN

^^^76083051^//r942

OCLC

• 84975
• SCSB-10181057

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library