African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions

Editor(s): Firoze Manji, Sokari Ekine

Pambazuka Press (imprint of Fahamu), Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford, 2011, pp. 234

These are largely contemporaneous accounts, lightly revised from Pambazuka News, Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice, http://www.pambazuka.org. As well as interesting contributions on Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Algeria (noted again under E.V), this book covers unrest in a number of Sub-Saharan countries:

‘People’s revolts in Burkina Faso’, February-April 2011, involving students, the broad population and army mutinies (unfortunately the mutineers did not make common cause with the civilian protesters), pp. 131-46.

A ‘Protest Diary’ from Cameroon in February 2011, by presidential candidate Kah Walla, blogs about strictly nonviolent protests brutally suppressed (pp.107-10).

In Swaziland (pp. 155-169) the 12-15 April 2011 popular demonstrations went ahead in the face of roadblocks and despite the arrests of virtually the entire leadership of the democratic association, perhaps signalling ‘the beginning of the end’ for the absolute monarchy.

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Volume One -> E. Resisting Oppressive, Dictatorial, Military or Authoritarian Rule -> E. I. Africa - Sub-Saharan -> E. I.2. Resisting Repressive and Authoritarian Regimes -> E. I.2.3. Third Wave of Protests: 2011 - 2021

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Volume One -> E. V.B. The 'Arab Spring' in North Africa and the Middle East: 2011-12 -> E. V.B.b. Individual Countries -> E. V.B.b.1. Egypt
Volume One -> E. V.B. The 'Arab Spring' in North Africa and the Middle East: 2011-12 -> E. V.B.b. Individual Countries -> E. V.B.b.2. Tunisia

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