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

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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Additional Authors
  • Falola, Toyin
  • Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala
Description
xxiv, 354 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Carolina Academic Press African world series
Uniform Title
Carolina Academic Press African world series.
Subject
  • Since 1960
  • Political violence > Africa > Congresses
  • Economic history
  • Political violence
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • Africa > Politics and government > 1960- > Congresses
  • Africa > Social conditions > 1960- > Congresses
  • Africa > Economic conditions > 1960- > Congresses
  • Africa
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.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781611637427
  • 1611637422
LCCN
^^2016002651
OCLC
  • 935784540
  • SCSB-10522431
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library