Now Out: African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions

The tumultuous uprisings of citizens in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have
seized the attention of media analysts who have characterised these as
'Arab revolutions', a perspective given weight by popular
demonstrations in Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and elsewhere. However, what
have been given less attention are the concurrent uprisings in
Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon,
Kenya, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland,
Uganda, Western Sahara and Zimbabwe. The uprisings across Africa and
in the Middle East, the book argues, are the result of common
experiences of decades of declining living standards, mass
unemployment, land dispossessions and impoverishment of the majority,
while a few have engorged themselves with riches.

Through incisive contributions from analysts and activists across the
continent, the essays in African Awakening provide an overview of the
struggle for democratisation which goes beyond calls merely for
transparent electoral processes and constitutes a reawakening of the
spirit of freedom and justice for the majority.

Contributors: Charles Abugre, Essam Al-Amin, Massan d'Almeida, Samir
Amin, Patrick Bond, Horace Campbell, Lila Chouli, Sokari Ekine, Hassan
El Ghayesh, Lakhdar Ghettas, Nigel C. Gibson, Adam Hanieh, Konstantina
Isidoros, Peter Kenworthy, Sadri Khiari, Mahmood Mamdani, Firoze
Manji, Imad Mesdoua, Fatma Naib, Explo Nani-Kofi, J. Oloka-Onyango,
Richard Pithouse, Jean-Paul Pougala, Khadija Sharife, Yash Tandon,
Melakou Tegegn, Kah Walla


Format Paperback
ISBN-10 0-85749-021-4
ISBN-13 978-0-85749-021-6
Publication Date December 2011
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